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Tim Wescott on Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:14:41 -0600
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:22:26 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" on Fri, 14 Dec 2012
03:47:08 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

John Fields is pretty astute, and engineers learn early not to
answer general questions with specifics. "How much paint does it
take to paint a door?" should be immediately replied to with "How
big is the door, and what sort of paint?", because any specific
answer is only going to be correct if the questioner and respondent
both share all the same assumptions.

Oh shoot, that's easy. "A cup" - you may have to thin it a bit to
cover the whole door, but a cup will paint it.


Alternately, "a bucket". Just be sure to size the bucket differently if
it's the front door of a doll house, or the door to the hanger where you
keep your 747.


True that.


Then there's the VAB, where each door is roughly an acre in area.

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Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And
you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the
question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers
does it take to change a lightbulb.