Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 10, 2021

She could be boring.

What’s a Dremel got to do with it?

That Mabel! She’s a chip of the old block!

In going off the word “bit”, I was trying to figure out how to work “drill” into a family forum. I couldn’t do it, my mind started to wander. In the back of my mind, I knew “lathe” was in there somewhere, kind of “saw” that one coming.

That works until she cuts the “E” off the end, then she’s suddenly into plaster work.

We need to get going, go router out of there.

she’s on the lathe shift again…

Well, that took a turn.

Could be worse. She could be operating the giant crowbar.

After all, better lathe than lever.

She’s having a magic bowl movement?

Dan needs to join Harley in the Bad Jokes Jail.

It’s as plane as the sliver on your wood-chips

I took a beginning wood-working class once and learned two important things: First, I really don’t like ‘power’ tools that can take your finger off if you blink at the wrong time; and second, that a ‘jig’ isn’t a specific tool, it is just what the instructor (and wood-workers everywhere) call the ‘thing-a-ma-jig’ that they want at the time that either doesn’t have a real name or has a name they can’t remember. The wall of the workroom held about 100 ‘jigs’ and I would usually try seven or eight before I selected the one the instructor was talking about. [And people make fun of women who talk about the ‘what-cha-ma-call-it’. At least we generally use descriptors and hand gestures to clarify.]

And George Orr runs the lathe of heaven.

I got the same expression as the guy on the right.