To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Do you need to implement control loops in software?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

On Sep 19, 7:21*pm, Tim Wescott wrote:
To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? *(Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Serviceshttp://www.wescottdesign.com

Do you need to implement control loops in software?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you.
See details athttp://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

Have a politician drill a "straight" hole?

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:21:01 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

Take a look at:

http://www.garrettwade.com/product.a...cd2=1284955995

Used to use bits like this to run romex thru corner studs.

HTH

Bob
rgentry at oz dot net

On 2010-09-20, Bob Gentry wrote:
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:21:01 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

Take a look at:

http://www.garrettwade.com/product.a...cd2=1284955995

Used to use bits like this to run romex thru corner studs.

I wound up with a set of these made by Milwaukee. Price was
steep -- and it would have been even steeper except that they had been
in the store for so long that they had been discontinued, and the owner
had to call Milwaukee (and give a magic word or two) to get the last
price that they sold at. I needed the 1-1/4" diameter, and the around
the corner at need was a nice bonus feature.

I've also used one to rout out a hole for storing a diamond
dressing tool in the box which holds my Dremel grinding wheels. Just
set it up in the drill press -- set the depth stop, and slid the wood
box against the edge of the vise.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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On 9/19/2010 5:21 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:

(...)

My favorites in chronological order:

P.S. A dishwasher, while a fine parts washer, is not perceived as such
by roughly half of the population. Strange but true.
Dave George 10/19/2007

Wrenches have a way of wandering off into those little wormholes that socks
go into. A wrench isn't any good sitting in your tool box
100 miles away when your on a ride, so your going to have to take
it out of the toolbox sooner or later, and when you do, if the little
******* sees an opportunity, it's gonna make a break for it.


I miss TV now and then. Usually just after I put a new scope on the rifle.
-
pyotr filipivich


The designer sat at his drafting board,
A wealth of knowledge in his head was stored.
Like "What can be done on a radial drill,
Or a turret lathe or a vertical mill?"
But above all things a knack he had,
For driving gentle machinists mad.
So he mused as he thoughtfully scratched his bean,
Just how can I make this thing hard to machine?
If I make this perfect body straight,
The job had ought to come out first rate.
But it would be so easy to turn and bore,
That it would never make the machinist sore.
So I'll put a compound taper there,
And a couple of angles to make them swear.
And brass would work for this little gear,
But it's too damned easy to work I fear.
So just to make the machinist squeal,
I'll have him mill it from tungsten steel.
And I'll put these holes that hold the cap,
Down underneath where they can't be tapped.
Now if they can make this, it'll just be luck,
Cause it can't be held by dog or chuck,
And it can't be planed and it can't be ground,
So I feel my design is unusually sound.
Then he shouted with glee, "Success at last!
This goddam thing can't even be cast!"
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada


--Winston

In article ,
Bob Gentry wrote:

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:21:01 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

Take a look at:

http://www.garrettwade.com/product.a...cd2=1284955995

Used to use bits like this to run romex thru corner studs.

HTH

Bob
rgentry at oz dot net

Hell, I make curved-hole drills all the time, for metal. But I just call
it "sharpening."

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:05:14 -0700, Winston wrote:
On 9/19/2010 5:21 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
(...)
My favorites in chronological order:

P.S. A dishwasher, while a fine parts washer, is not perceived as such
by roughly half of the population. Strange but true.
Dave George 10/19/2007

Wrenches have a way of wandering off into those little wormholes that socks
go into. A wrench isn't any good sitting in your tool box
100 miles away when your on a ride, so your going to have to take
it out of the toolbox sooner or later, and when you do, if the little
******* sees an opportunity, it's gonna make a break for it.


They go to the same Twilight Zone where the other sock went[1] and
are used for raw material for those dang clotheshangers that seem
to multiply in the closet.

Cheers!
Rich

[1] Actually, I think I know where the other sock went - you lost
one, so when you sort and pair your socks, you throw the odd one
back in the hamper and forget about it - there's really only the
one lost sock! (Kinda like that fruitcake that sits on the shelf
until you give it away next Xmas.) ;-)

R

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:56:10 -0700, Rich Grise
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:05:14 -0700, Winston wrote:
On 9/19/2010 5:21 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
(...)
My favorites in chronological order:

P.S. A dishwasher, while a fine parts washer, is not perceived as such
by roughly half of the population. Strange but true.
Dave George 10/19/2007

Wrenches have a way of wandering off into those little wormholes that socks
go into. A wrench isn't any good sitting in your tool box
100 miles away when your on a ride, so your going to have to take
it out of the toolbox sooner or later, and when you do, if the little
******* sees an opportunity, it's gonna make a break for it.


They go to the same Twilight Zone where the other sock went[1] and
are used for raw material for those dang clotheshangers that seem
to multiply in the closet.

Cheers!
Rich

[1] Actually, I think I know where the other sock went - you lost
one, so when you sort and pair your socks, you throw the odd one
back in the hamper and forget about it - there's really only the
one lost sock! (Kinda like that fruitcake that sits on the shelf
until you give it away next Xmas.) ;-)

R

"As physicists now know, there is some nonzero probability that any
object will, through quantum effects, tunnel from the workbench in your
shop to Floyds Knobs, Indiana (unless your shop is already in Indiana,
in which case the object will tunnel to Trotters, North Dakota).

The smaller mass of the object, the higher the probability.
Therefore, disassembled parts, particularly small ones,
of machines disappear much faster than assembled machines."
Greg Dermer: rec.crafts.metalworking

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:05:14 -0700, Winston
wrote:

On 9/19/2010 5:21 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:

(...)

My favorites in chronological order:

P.S. A dishwasher, while a fine parts washer, is not perceived as such
by roughly half of the population. Strange but true.
Dave George 10/19/2007

Wrenches have a way of wandering off into those little wormholes that socks
go into. A wrench isn't any good sitting in your tool box
100 miles away when your on a ride, so your going to have to take
it out of the toolbox sooner or later, and when you do, if the little
******* sees an opportunity, it's gonna make a break for it.


I miss TV now and then. Usually just after I put a new scope on the rifle.
-
pyotr filipivich


The designer sat at his drafting board,
A wealth of knowledge in his head was stored.
Like "What can be done on a radial drill,
Or a turret lathe or a vertical mill?"
But above all things a knack he had,
For driving gentle machinists mad.
So he mused as he thoughtfully scratched his bean,
Just how can I make this thing hard to machine?
If I make this perfect body straight,
The job had ought to come out first rate.
But it would be so easy to turn and bore,
That it would never make the machinist sore.
So I'll put a compound taper there,
And a couple of angles to make them swear.
And brass would work for this little gear,
But it's too damned easy to work I fear.
So just to make the machinist squeal,
I'll have him mill it from tungsten steel.
And I'll put these holes that hold the cap,
Down underneath where they can't be tapped.
Now if they can make this, it'll just be luck,
Cause it can't be held by dog or chuck,
And it can't be planed and it can't be ground,
So I feel my design is unusually sound.
Then he shouted with glee, "Success at last!
This goddam thing can't even be cast!"
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada


The only credit I can take for the above comes from the fact that I
knew where I had stored this gem that was posted on RCM many years
ago. Unfortunately, I failed to store the name of the original
contributor.

--Winston
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:21:01 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

Consistent with the law of innate perversity of inanimate objects,
tools used on a dock are irresistably attracted to the water under the
dock. These dark forces are sneaky and devious, snatching tools from
the hands and pockets of the unwary to make that dreaded quiet
"sploop" sound that signals their disappearance into icy cold water
to be absorbed and concealed by the loon**** bottom within seconds.

On 9/20/2010 6:37 PM, Gerald Miller wrote:

The only credit I can take for the above comes from the fact that I
knew where I had stored this gem that was posted on RCM many years
ago. Unfortunately, I failed to store the name of the original
contributor.

It is a good'un for sure.

--Winston

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:40:12 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:21:01 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

Consistent with the law of innate perversity of inanimate objects,
tools used on a dock are irresistably attracted to the water under the
dock. These dark forces are sneaky and devious, snatching tools from
the hands and pockets of the unwary to make that dreaded quiet
"sploop" sound that signals their disappearance into icy cold water
to be absorbed and concealed by the loon**** bottom within seconds.

I believe the "sploop" and "ploop" sounds of tools hitting liquid is
due to the liquid's hastened coverup of its newlyfound treasure.

Unfortunately, I've heard both sound types. Used automotive oil makes
the "ploop" variety. The deeper the bowl of it, the happier the sound.

--
Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people.
Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Tim Wescott wrote:

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)


That one is hard to top. I'll keep reading the thread but for know it has my vote for #1.

Wes

Rich Grise wrote:

Wrenches have a way of wandering off into those little wormholes that socks
go into. A wrench isn't any good sitting in your tool box
100 miles away when your on a ride, so your going to have to take
it out of the toolbox sooner or later, and when you do, if the little
******* sees an opportunity, it's gonna make a break for it.


They go to the same Twilight Zone where the other sock went[1] and
are used for raw material for those dang clotheshangers that seem
to multiply in the closet.


Since I went to only wearing Hane's grey athletic socks, the missing sock thing subsided.
Then they started selling the grey sock only in packs with black socks. Now I can't find
black socks but I can find grey socks. I think that is proof that that Hanes knows about
the sock twilight zone and is fully exploiting it. *******s!

Wes
--
"Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect
government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

I could write a rather thoughtful reply, using politics. But, you'd
requested not. Sadly so, my reply would have brought many a smile.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
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"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
...
To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight
hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Do you need to implement control loops in software?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:54:07 -0400, Stormin Mormon top-posted:
[top-post repaired]
"Tim Wescott" wrote in message

To date, the best I've seen was in response to "How do you drill a
curved hole?".

Answer: "Give it to an apprentice and ask him to drill a straight
hole".

Any others? (Leaving out the politics and religion, please?)

I could write a rather thoughtful reply, using politics. But, you'd
requested not. Sadly so, my reply would have brought many a smile.

Give the assignment to a member of whichever party you hate and tell
them to drill a straight hole. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich