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In reply to the discussion: I ran across my old high school history book today. It is nearly 40 years old. [View all]progressoid
(49,988 posts)44. “It says sprocket not socket!”
This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7? gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, You cant work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7? wrench. Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, The Langstrom 7? wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket. Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, It says sprocket not socket!
-Steve Martin
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I ran across my old high school history book today. It is nearly 40 years old. [View all]
Brigid
Jan 2013
OP
It's Albuquerque! I know because we lived there when my Dad was stationed at ...
11 Bravo
Jan 2013
#31
I was really surprised how dumbed down my college English composition class was
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2013
#4
I've learned more through the Internet than I did in my standardized testing factory. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Jan 2013
#5
until schools have the funding to make sure students ALL students have a computer both at home and
sad-cafe
Jan 2013
#35
Read a TIME or NEWSWEEK from the two eras. The current guises deserve extinction.
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#19
When I was in fifth and sixth grade, we read Junior Scholastic every week
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#25