This thread has been dormant for quite a while, but I was reminded of another one just the other day. I first heard it years ago while helping the guy I was working for at the time. He'd been in the trade for longer than I'd been alive. I don't remember exactly what it was that he did, but he skinned a knuckle pretty badly.
All he did was look at it and mutter, "Well, the job ain't right unless you draw blood."
Here's one I got from my grandfather, when it's not perfect but it will work...
"Good enough for Government Work!"
it's so true too...
And my foreman last year loved this one:
"It's Friday, you aint got no job, you aint got s**t to do!"
in fact he'd say it at least 3 times on Fridays... to the point where I find myself doing it now
-Jim
-Jim
"Hit any key to continue"
To describe your latest dumb purchase "about as reliable as a steam driven stop watch".
Regards from the Scrub somewhere near Karratha, Western Australia
Squizzy
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Its better to be ignorant and ask a Stupid Question than to be plain Dumb and not ask at all - Screamed by High School Maths Teacher, 1979
We always like to use this one on the newer guys, "You're not totally useless, you can always be used as a bad example"
We always say, "Desite our best efforts, everything came out fine."
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That's from the movie Friday. Funny as hell! LOLOriginally Posted by JimBruce42
And my foreman last year loved this one:
"It's Friday, you aint got no job, you aint got s**t to do!"
in fact he'd say it at least 3 times on Fridays... to the point where I find myself doing it now
-Jim
John
One of my favorites: "You could be replaced with a switch that isn't wired to anything except for a piece of safety wire that keeps it permanently in the OFF position."
How about one of the oldest construction sayings and best excuses in the world...
Rome wasn't built in a day
Yep thats my favorite. "close enough for goverment work"Here's one I got from my grandfather, when it's not perfect but it will work...
"Good enough for Government Work!"
it's so true too...
"$#!+ happens"
"I am getting to old for this $#!+" I love the look I get from older guys when I say that. I am only 20.
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bank to say yes, but dealer said no GRRR:
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I got the perfect hand to use that one on.
Ones I have picked up
One of the old timers I worked for would call guys "Fuzzy Green Worms" when they made a newbie mistake.
"Fancy Operators" are guys that can't cut a flat grade. We tell them it doesn't have to be fancy just flat.
Scraper hands are just glorified truck drivers.
"You're killing me" everyone out west uses this one.
"Easy Money" a guy that gets paid to do nothing. If a guy ever told me that his body would never be found.
"This ain't my first rodeo" is a good one from back home.
Describing a machine
"That thing wouldn't push the skim off a luke warm custard"
"That things about as handy as a hip pocket in a singlet"
and when the over obvious is stated;
"does a duck's ass pucker when it power dives?" (insert for "is the pope a catholic" or "does a bear crap in the woods?")
Describing either some wet boggy ground or the intestinal fortitude of a foreman who wont back his workers;
"all the consistency of a jelly sandwich"
Lastly, to describe the soft ground capabilities of a single axle truck (some will know what I'm talking about);
"that thing would get bogged in dog turd"
Regards from the Scrub somewhere near Karratha, Western Australia
Squizzy
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Its better to be ignorant and ask a Stupid Question than to be plain Dumb and not ask at all - Screamed by High School Maths Teacher, 1979
I have enough foresight to laugh at you, in another thirty years, when you say that and really mean it."I am getting to old for this $#!+" I love the look I get from older guys when I say that. I am only 20.
Slightly off topic but I'm looking at a job in "Lois Lane" tomorrow....I had to check the street directory just to make sure someone wasn't taking the mickey!
Regards from the Scrub somewhere near Karratha, Western Australia
Squizzy
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Its better to be ignorant and ask a Stupid Question than to be plain Dumb and not ask at all - Screamed by High School Maths Teacher, 1979
Our county went through the pains of giving every house a unique 5 digit address for the 911 system a few years back. People on private roads also got to pick their road names but it had to end in "lane" or "way". Just a few we have nearby: Lois Lane, Passing Lane, Fast Lane, Slow Lane, Our Drive Way, Outamy Way, Three Second Lane (big basketball fan), Back Way, My Way (A Sinatra fan). I think my favorite so far is Anchorsa Way (lots of Navy folks here).
A construction saying we always had referring to a field repair "Guaranteed to hold until it breaks!", on the farm my favorite when hanging tobacco in the barn as the pole you're standing on 20' up starts creaking was "when it crack's it's strong, but when it break's it's gone".
Here is a couple...first one is describing a piece of equipment
'wouldn't haul a sick who*e off a p*ss pot"
Describing an operator who thinks he knows it all
"He's a legend in his own mind"
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