A post that was made by davenn on an other forum.

Today's Giggles

DRILL PRESS: Useful for snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hand and flinging it across the room.

WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and calluses in the time it takes you to say, "Yeou!"

HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in holes until you die of old age.

PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. Vise-Grip pliers are generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads.

TORCH: Used almost entirely to testing for flammable objects in your shop. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub you wanted the bearing race removed.

TABLE SAW: A stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.

BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use.

ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

TROUBLE LIGHT: Sometimes called a drop light. Its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105mm Howitzer shells were used during the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge.

SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids, but it excels at converting screws into non-removable screws.

PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding the clip you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

HAMMER: A kind of divining rod used to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.

BOX KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of packages delivered to your front door. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.

TOOL: Any handy object that you throw across the garage while yelling a string of obscenities, which usually is the next tool that you will need.

 

@bertus,

And I thought this thread was going to be about late-night television comedy/comedians....

 

Apple finally did it - A Macbook that supports Windows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CIA – Computer Industry Acronyms

CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
PCMCIA: People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
SCSI: System Can’t See It
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
DOS: Defunct Operating System
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PnP: Plug and Pray
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You’re Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well.

 

 

 

 

I hope it can be done safer.

 

 

Floating earth ground?

 

More like dangling earth?

That looks to be mounted on a metal sheet. And the earth wire coming out of the white rectangular piece of plastic seems to be connected to the metal sheet with the dangling earth ground-in-a-plastic-bag.

 

 

 

Actual conversation overheard in my first day working in the electronics laboratory.
Engineer 1: My girlfriend wants me to go line dancing.
Engineer 2: What the hell is line dancing?
Engineer 3: It's like square dancing, but with one less dimension.
I knew then this was my new home…