[Boatanchors] Precision (was WTB: Xtals...)

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WOW! HE must be now at RR engine group?
ole jak
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:55:22 -1000 "Kludge" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com> writes:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David 
> Stinson
> > I prefer precise units in ascending order, like:
> > a smidgen, a pinch, a dash, two fingers, three fingers.
> > a handful, a bunch, a mug-full, a bucket,
> > a barrel, a wheel-barrel and finally,
> > a butt-load.
> 
> There are also the finger (sometimes specifying *which* finger), 
> four
> fingers, thumb, seabag (full usually), zillion, gazillion, and the 
> ever
> popular "Oh, my freakin' gawd, where'd they all come from?".  There 
> are
> more, I'm sure.
> 
> When I was at Pay In Advance ... er, Pittsburgh Institute of 
> Aeronautics,
> there was a student there who wasn't too swift on reading a 6" steel 
> rule
> but he could count the "big lines, medium sized lines, little lines 
> and
> little bitty lines" pretty well.  The instructors and other students 
> weren't
> able to teach him what they meant and he dropped out.  
> 
> Best regards,
>  
> Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
> http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx 
> http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/ 
> http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com 
> Hiki Nô! 
> 
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