[TheForge] FW: [The_Anvil] Dont put your tongue on a frozen anvil

[John Husvar]

On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 06:28 AM, Ron Childers wrote:

> Ries,
>
> The welders were paid by the number of rods they burned- Some of them 
> would
> throw fists full of rods into the keel joints and just weld over them. 
> Made
> a very weak joint but they got a hellofa paycheck.
>
> Ron C
>

Brings to mind an old tale from the Vietnam era: (And maybe every war 
era after WW2) :)

Seems this older Colonel was sailing with his unit on a ship heading to 
a deployment.

He remarked to a young sailor that the ship reminded him of the ship 
he'd sailed in on the way to Europe during WW2.

"Yep," He said, "We called her the Shattered Cherry, but her real name 
was the Chateau Thierry. Wonder what happened to that old rustbucket. 
We were afraid all the way across that she'd come apart and drown us 
before the Germans got a chance to shoot at us."

The young sailor gulped  and replied: "Sir, this _is_ the Chateau 
Thierry!"