Word usage comes in 14 year cycles!

Originally posted by moonbus
Oh don't get me started on British bikes! Whitworth threads--aaarrrggggghhhh!

Yep, whitworthless you mean... I had a job once at a scientific instrument refurbish house in New Jersey and had to put together this tiny gold sputtering device, about the size of a toaster.
You put stuff inside and you have a small vacuum pump to pump out most of the air, then put in argon or nitrogen and hit it with a few hundred volts and a little gold bar starts emitting gold atoms which coats whatever you put inside.

There were screws holding it together and I tried my best to match, American, Metric, NONE of those sizes close to those screws made a tight connection. Then I realized the dam thing was made in the UK and the whole thing was put together with Whitworth threads, I had never heard of them till I ran into having to fix that machine. I just said screw it, so to speak🙂 and drilled them out to metric and that ended THAT problem.

Originally posted by moonbus
Oh don't get me started on British bikes! Whitworth threads--aaarrrggggghhhh!

Who's been watching Cars ???

Originally posted by vivify
You know, it's about time "Google' was added as a verb to the dictionary.

It already is in most dictionaries.

Originally posted by vivify
You know, it's about time "Google' was added as a verb to the dictionary.

We talk about a Googler here, and when he goes overboard, he's a Gaggler!