[TheForge] Weldors Block

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The Daily Onion is a news parody magazine, they make their articles up. 
They were obviously parodying their own "writers block".

Larry and Pat Brown wrote:

> Sounds like he was drinking a bit the night before....
> Sometimes the creative needs inspiration, but a strut usually needs a 
> ruler and soapstone.
> I guess the boss called the paper just to show him off ;-)
> Larry Brown
> Maybe I can try it today..
>
> At 10:34 PM 4/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> *From The Onion, a satirical. Sadly, I've actually had welders block 
>> before.....
>>
>> Local Welder Suffering From Welder's Block*
>> EASTON, PA�Area welder Bruce Meacham confirmed Monday that he is 
>> suffering from a severe case of welder's block. "I know what I want 
>> to do," Meacham said. "I need to get this supporting strut attached 
>> to the main body of this girder. But I keep running into a wall every 
>> time I sit down and try to actually weld." Meacham said he spent the 
>> better part of last Saturday putting on his goggles, starting up his 
>> acetylene torch, and then merely staring at the two pieces of metal 
>> for hours. "You've got to understand, welding is a creative act," 
>> Meacham said. "It's not the kind of thing where you can just punch 
>> the clock and do it from 9 to 5."
>>