That surprised me

A pair of peculiarly perfect pliers that belonged to my grandfather.

 

I almost got around to dragging the SOBoxer out of the shed on Sunday, but
then it turned nasty weatherwise again.

I bet next sunday is fine, seeing as I'll be out doing (indoor) harchery.

 

IRTA substandard.

 

prevert.

I did actually find a system with a working TECO on it (VMS thing, I think),
and managed to create and save a 1-line file.

 

Tja; VMS, or RT-11 (or RSX-11M) more likely. I actually didn't
like it much (standard joke was to type in your name and then guess how
TECO would interpret it, though I rather suspect vi could be subjected to
the same test). But it came in handy when I had to programme in C on a
PDP-11 equipped with only a Teletype interface. I quickly learnt the
key sequence to convert all upper-case letters (as entered from the
terminal) to lower case (as required by the language and the libraries).

--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Austin Shackles wrote:

IRTA - what is?

 

For better alliteration that could have read: "previously possessed by
patergrand"

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
TOG@Toil.?.murray.invalid typed

I've got this log maul.

I hit things with it and they stay hit.

I can achieve a precision of thousandths with it on a good day.

Thousandths of a mile, that is.

On a good day.

And then there's the CNC mill. I'm never totally sure I'm using that
though. Not in the strict sense of the word. I tell it what I'd like it
to do, then it gets a tad... autonomous.

Hypnotic it is.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

it that Timmy Mallet ?

 

Perfectly put.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Roger Hunt

Pathetically predictable.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Pater's pater

 

sorry... "I Read That As".

 

have to admit, it's currently if not my favourite tool, at least a popular
one. Specially when undoing obstinate bloody suspension bits. The only
real problem is the number of places it won't fit.

 

Oo-er!

 

I'm wondering what the owner of the suspenders would have to say.

 

Husabastard/Husaberg, I converted to the church of Motard at the start of
this year, hence the need to use a torque wrench and a lot of maintenance.
It gets fed a litre of FS, filers and plug every um, 90 minutes at present.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ovenpaa

LOL.

"It's got a reasonably short mean time between failu... Oh FFS! Not
*AGAIN*!".

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

I know it cant compete with TOGs Gunsons strobe light, but my fav tool
is a Eutectic 2002, 200amp inverter...................

k

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

The fun part is if you let a certain brother ride it, then when you go to
start it afterwards and it backfires and smokes like a bastard(1)the
brother thinks he has broken it(2)

(1) Oil fling from camchain into airbox and carb = smoke, easily resolved
with new breather filter.

(2) As if he would ever knowingly do that to my bike.