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You'd think that the folks hired to take classified ads would be a little more knowledgable than the one who doesn't know what a womb is. The ad was in the Lost and Found of the Florida Times Union several years ago. LOST: Black male cat with white paws. Womb over right eye. Wonder what comment Jay Leno would have had if this ad had been sent him for his "Headlines" segment. KatieKitty's mom. >LOST: Black male cat with white paws. Womb over right eye. ROFL! As somebody who worked at newspapers all my life, and am remembering some of the people whose job it was to take classifieds over the phone, I find this hysterically funny. Thanks so much for the laugh. (and the memories!) Sherry > >LOST: Black male cat with white paws. Womb over right eye. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Sherry It's very amusing. I like things like that myself. Must be universal asI saw in the classifieds of my local paper "For sale, two budgery guards... :-)) Tweed >It's very amusing. I like things like that myself. Must be universal asI >saw in the classifieds of my local paper "For sale, two budgery guards... >:-)) > >Tweed Well, at least that's better than two b*ggery guards for sale ;-) Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune h*$el*$$e*nd**$o$ts**i*$*$m*m$o*n*s@$*a$o*l.c**$om$ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- >>It's very amusing. I like things like that myself. Must be universal asI >>saw in the classifieds of my local paper "For sale, two budgery guards... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Cheers, helen s But probably less useful. ;) My favorite typo wasn't exactly a typo. For years, near my house, there was a big factory with a neon sign that said "KENTILE FLOORS." One year the second leg on the "R" went out, so subsequently the sign was advertising "KENTILE FLOOPS." Everybody in the neighborhood really liked it that way, and we felt kind of sorry when the sign was fixed. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > My favorite typo wasn't exactly a typo. For years, near my house, > there was a big factory with a neon sign that said "KENTILE FLOORS." > One year the second leg on the "R" went out, so subsequently the sign > was advertising "KENTILE FLOOPS." Everybody in the neighborhood > really liked it that way, and we felt kind of sorry when the sign was > fixed. ;) LOL, that's great. Kind of like "Hot L Baltimore". There's a sign in the Oakland area (not neon, so it was intended that way), which says, "STOP CASTING POROSITY". It can be seen from the freeway, and is the occasion for short car-games of trying to figure out just what in the world that means. Anyone have a clue?? Joyce > > My favorite typo wasn't exactly a typo. For years, near my house, > > there was a big factory with a neon sign that said "KENTILE FLOORS." [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Joyce Guess they are strongly opposed to casting porosity. :P You live in California-- you can probably expect a ballot initative. :P Reminds me of that t-shirt "Stop Plate Tectonics." Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > Guess they are strongly opposed to casting porosity. :P You live in > California-- you can probably expect a ballot initative. :P We would've had one by now, if it was going to happen! :) That sign's been there for years. A few parsings: * Opposition to "casting porosity" (as you pointed out) * The permeability of the "stop-casting" technique (whatever that is) * Stop putting that lousy actor, Mr Porosity, in your movies! :) > Reminds me of that t-shirt "Stop Plate Tectonics." I've always been opposed to gravity, myself. :) Joyce Joyce wrote: >There's a sign in the Oakland area (not neon, so it was intended that >way), which says, "STOP CASTING POROSITY". It can be seen from the freeway, >and is the occasion for short car-games of trying to figure out just what >in the world that means. > >Anyone have a clue?? Porosity would be a flaw in anything from cast from a mold. Anything from freeway (motorway) overpass supports to the products of the firm of Ruger, known to US gun nuts like me as the foremost caster of firearms frames. How would you like to be driving along on an elevated freeway with great big air bubbles in those supports or fire a pistol with air bubbles in the frame? The people who put up the sign probably sell either some sort of vibrating equipment that will vibrate your molds as you pour your casting or some sort of testing equipment. For ferrous metals, your test equipment measures changes in the magnetic flux to reveal porous spots. For a freeway support, it would be an impact tool and an echo measuring tool to see if all the all the echos come back the same. Simple, but it threw me for a minute till it suddenly dawned on me, "STOP CASTING POROSITY" -- It makes for a bad casting. Regards and Purrs, O J > Porosity would be a flaw in anything from cast from a mold. Anything > from freeway (motorway) overpass supports to the products of the firm > of Ruger, known to US gun nuts like me as the foremost caster of > firearms frames. How would you like to be driving along on an > elevated freeway with great big air bubbles in those supports or fire > a pistol with air bubbles in the frame? > The people who put up the sign probably sell either some sort of > vibrating equipment that will vibrate your molds as you pour your > casting or some sort of testing equipment. For ferrous metals, your > test equipment measures changes in the magnetic flux to reveal porous > spots. For a freeway support, it would be an impact tool and an echo > measuring tool to see if all the all the echos come back the same. Wow, that's the first time anyone's ever given a technical answer to that question. I know very little about mold casting, but what you say makes sense. > Simple, but it threw me for a minute till it suddenly dawned on me, > "STOP CASTING POROSITY" -- It makes for a bad casting. Not sure I understand what you're saying here. From what you say, I assume their business is to stop porosity from developing in molded materials. Joyce PS - did you mention... BUBBLES??? :) > > Simple, but it threw me for a minute till it suddenly dawned on > > me, "STOP CASTING POROSITY" -- It makes for a bad casting. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >PS - did you mention... BUBBLES??? :) Have you ever noticed, when opening a box of breakfast cereal for the first time, that the box isn't completely full? The vibrations as the box is transported from the manufacturing plant to the store, and then from the store to your house, make the cereal shift about until it is packed in as tightly as possible. The machine described above does the same thing for a molding, such as concrete poured into a form. The vibrations encourage any bubbles to migrate upwards to the top, making sure that there aren't any voids (bubbles) lower down. In the case of concrete, I would imagine that there is a tradeoff between not enough vibration, possibly leaving trapped air bubbles, and too much vibration, which might encourage all of the pebbles in the concrete to shift to the bottom of the mold. When I was in college, I took a ceramics class as one of my art electives. Before a potter can start making a pot out of a batch of clay, he or she has to knead the clay in order to work out any air bubbles. If any bubbles remain in the finished pot, they will expand and shatter the pot while it is being fired in the kiln. The clay also has to be thoroughly dry before the pot is fired, or a steam explosion will shatter the pot. In either case, the explosion probably wouldn't damage the kiln itself, but the flying shards might well break other pots in the kiln.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > The people who put up the sign probably sell either some sort of > vibrating equipment that will vibrate your molds as you pour your "... equipment that will vibrate your molds..." that sounds kinky! SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> The people who put up the sign probably sell either some sort of >> vibrating equipment that will vibrate your molds as you pour your > >"... equipment that will vibrate your molds..." that sounds kinky! Reminds me of "Blackadder": "Way-hey, sounds rude!" Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >> The people who put up the sign probably sell either some sort of >> vibrating equipment that will vibrate your molds as you pour your > >"... equipment that will vibrate your molds..." that sounds kinky! Almost as kinky as equipment that will mold your vibrator! Regards and Purrs, O J Porosity is how you describe something porous. Now, kitty litter has to be "porous" or having a lot of little holes, or pores. So it's absorbant. I'm guessing that casting porosity is when you try to make something out of metal, but there is a bit of air mixed in. So it isn't a solid casting. SignatureChristopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com Kreisleriana <kreisleriana2@yahoo.com> wrote: > My favorite typo wasn't exactly a typo. For years, near my house, > there was a big factory with a neon sign that said "KENTILE FLOORS." > One year the second leg on the "R" went out, so subsequently the sign > was advertising "KENTILE FLOOPS." Everybody in the neighborhood > really liked it that way, and we felt kind of sorry when the sign was > fixed. ;) LOL, that's great. Kind of like "Hot L Baltimore". There's a sign in the Oakland area (not neon, so it was intended that way), which says, "STOP CASTING POROSITY". It can be seen from the freeway, and is the occasion for short car-games of trying to figure out just what in the world that means. Anyone have a clue?? Joyce In my dad's old home town, they had a DODEG police car. Or so I'm told. SignatureChristopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com On 21 Nov 2004 07:26:14 GMT, My favorite typo wasn't exactly a typo. For years, near my house, there was a big factory with a neon sign that said "KENTILE FLOORS." One year the second leg on the "R" went out, so subsequently the sign was advertising "KENTILE FLOOPS." Everybody in the neighborhood really liked it that way, and we felt kind of sorry when the sign was fixed. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com DH and I took my Mum and DH's parents out for a Fancy Meal last night. 'Tis the first time we've been to the restaurant, so we weren't sure what to expect, except that we'd been told it was nice. It *was* nice, but DH and I had a bit of a giggle at the menu where they listed "Baby Ganoush" as part of an entre. We have now been infected and will never "baba" again - it will be "baby" from now-on! Mind you, the baby was part of a Mezze Plate, which the waiters pronounced "messy plate", so it all kind-of fitted in. [for what it's worth, I would pronounce it "met-zhe", but then I don't speak more than a couple of words of Italian and probably have an appalling Australian accent] Tish >You'd think that the folks hired to take classified ads would be a >little more knowledgable than the one who doesn't know what a womb is. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >KatieKitty's mom. > DH and I took my Mum and DH's parents out for a Fancy Meal last night. > 'Tis the first time we've been to the restaurant, so we weren't sure > what to expect, except that we'd been told it was nice. It *was* > nice, but DH and I had a bit of a giggle at the menu where they listed > "Baby Ganoush" as part of an entre. > Tish I just love finding typos on menus! It always makes for great fun! Jill >> You'd think that the folks hired to take classified ads would be a >> little more knowledgable than the one who doesn't know what a womb [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> >> KatieKitty's mom. As a locksmith, I used to have an answering service. Some of the gals there were pretty clueless. Some of the mis spellings were good. That was years ago, and I can't remember most of them. But they were clueless. SignatureChristopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com You'd think that the folks hired to take classified ads would be a little more knowledgable than the one who doesn't know what a womb is. The ad was in the Lost and Found of the Florida Times Union several years ago. LOST: Black male cat with white paws. Womb over right eye. Wonder what comment Jay Leno would have had if this ad had been sent him for his "Headlines" segment. KatieKitty's mom. |
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