Pickles by Brian Crane for September 17, 2019

Apparently you CAN fix anything with a hammer.

make it a Fisher-Price hammer

A two by four works just as well.

Nailed it!

I wonder if that would work on my stupid printer?

If it does not work, get a bigger hammer!

Maybe Earl tried to fix it earlier. That’s why it doesn’t work now. It just needed paper.

That is a good explanation why things don’t work in that house.

Hammers are like golf clubs …. Each hammer has it’s own job to do. Nelson which hammer do you get for Earl ?

It’s HAMMA time……. (can’t touch this)

No more letting Earl fix anything, Opal!

As a computer tech, I always referred to that as percussive maintenance.

A hammer won’t fix my TV…somehow, unexplained, the remote hit the screen and now it’s broke….LOL

I usually just yell for my sister. . .she’s the computer guru of the family. . .I swear to gawd, she just has to stand behind me, and the damn thing does exactly what it’s supposed to do.

Is the error message ‘PC LOAD LETTER’? Then a hammer’s the only solution.

everything can be fixed with a hammer and duct tape.

You can teach recalcitrant items some SEVERE lessons!

And if that doesn’t solve it, get a BIGGER hammer!

“Speak softly and carry a big stick….”

I used to have tools sufficient to fix anything. After I retired, I gave them away; and I have a framing hammer, 8-inch crescent wrench, pliers (electrician, slip-joint, and diagonal cutting), other minimally necessary tools; but the power tools are gone, and all the automobile tools as well. I learned if I have lots and lots of tools, either they will loaned and lost, or else I’ll be expected to use them. LOL!

Seems like the good ol’ boys referred to it as the “all purpose tool” which could “fix” anything…

What I said yesterday, I said in love.

Sometimes an impact adjustment does work. It helps to have a complete assortment of hammers, from tiny to very big. If all else fails, then give it a good kick. As a very last resort try reading the instructions.

Well, if I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning.

Are all the cables plugged in?That darn cat might get behind,and unplug something ;~}

Before I retired, I had a computer at work that was, shall we say “difficult.” Like cars which run perfectly when you take them to the shop, it would perform beautifully for the IT people, but freeze, crash, refuse to boot, or just sit there sniggering at me. But I discovered that if I gave the machine a hard look and reminded it which of us was the being with an opposable thumb and the ability to wield a ball peen hammer and could reduce the other to a pile of sparking, smoking pile of rubble, it became quite docile indeed.

It removes the question of whether or not it is broken.

The hammer thing sounds like my mother was-no hammer? Use a rock!

Hah folks, This is yer old Unkal Crazy Dave, and I’m a grad-u-ate of the BFH school of Ottomotive Re-pare and Kompewter De-sine.

That’s right garcoa the not working stuff is now completely ruined.

I went fishing and caught a bass, a catfish and a hammerfer.

Grandpa: Do you want me to put the hammer down? I’ll put the hammer down!

The correct technical term is a “Manually operated, digitally controlled, inertially guided, gravitationally vectored, impact generating cybernetic attitude adjustment device”.

I had a vehicle with a partly missing tooth on the starter gear. Naturally, that’s the tooth that needed to engage whenever I tried to start it. But if you whacked the starter a good one with a hammer, about half the time it did something to make it catch on the first start after that. So I bought a cheapie hammer and showed it to the starter, then stowed it under the seat. I swear this is true: After that, the starter worked at least 90% of the time. Hammers can fix things!.

I think it helps a few things! Lol. My husband would hit his starter motor with a hammer. Until he had to get a new one eventually. It did the trick for a while.

I operated a phototypesetting machine one time where the service technician told me if it stopped working, the first thing to try was to lift up one particular end approximately nine to twelve inches off the floor and let it drop. Apparently the vibrations of the machine would occasionally work one of the computer boards loose and this would usually drop it back into its slot. Early high-tech was fun.