On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 02:06:53 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 02/18/2019 01:29 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:24:56 -0000, wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:30:45 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:21:23 -0000, wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:36:39 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:17:22 -0000, wrote:

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:03:48 -0500, wrote:

On 2/17/19 5:38 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
In the 21st century, has someone not invented a screw thread which
always aligns perfectly? Even a simple bottle top never goes on
straight, you have to turn the bloody thing backwards to make it
jump
into place.

Methinks what you are looking for is called a "cork".

BTW, we teach our children the "turn it backwards" maneuver.

In the ordinance business we had to unteach that trick for guys
installing long time delay bomb fuses.

Explain.

Long time delay fuses (minutes to hours) have an anti tamper device
that causes the bomb to go off immediately if you try to unscrew it.

Also explain why we call our UK maps "ordinance survey".

Probably because they were originally derived from artillery range
maps or drawn by the people who made that kind of map.

I thought perhaps I was confusing two words, but I wasn't. You were :-)

Ordinance = a law
Ordnance = explosives
My spell check only seems to like the first one. Sorry for the
confusion. I didn't catch it

American spelling probably differs.

No, in this case it does not.

Ah, so you admit you ****ed up :-)