G clamp or C clamp?

[clare]

a TOOL.

[James Wilkinson]

Is a jointer not someone who prepares joints to smoke?

[DerbyDad03]

That would be a "roller".

It could also be a student, a doctor, a lawyer, a construction worker, a football player, a truck driver, a cop, a priest, an actuary, a biologist, a draftsman, an innkeeper, a plasterer, a tumbler, a yodeler, a novelist...

[Tony944]

I've always called this a G clamp in the UK, do Americans all say C clamp? Or is there a subtle difference in the shape?

You mean you don't know!!! "G" clamp is Female and "C" clamp is male

[bob_villain]

I would think the *extra* part on the G would denote male. (C being minus the thingis)

[hah]

In case anyone didn't know, a G-string is something you'd find on a guitar.

Some people do like listening to music while clamping things.

[Sam E]

What about as S-trap?

[hah]

[snip]

They're both so drunk they don't know which one is on top.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I have a dictionary from 1934, that defines a "computer" as a person.

[James Wilkinson]

The U does look like an S if you include the rest of the pipe after you've gone up the far side of the U. But the U is the important part where the water trap is.

[James Wilkinson]

Yes of course....

But playing a guitar while clamping would be difficult.

[DerbyDad03]

A U-Trap and an S-Trap are 2 different styles of traps.

Do an image search to see what I mean.

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

That use goes back a long way.

OED:

computer, n.

1. A person who makes calculations or computations; a calculator, a reckoner; spec. a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. Now chiefly hist.

1613 ?R. B.? Yong Mans Gleanings 1, I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vi. 289 The Calenders of these computers . 1704 Swift Tale of Tub vii. 140 A very skillful Computer, who hath given a full Demonstration of it from Rules of Arithmetick. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xviii. 162 To pay the expenses of a computer for reducing his observations. 1893 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 8 23 Some curious computer makes out the cost of electing a President for these United States to be four hundred millions of dollars.

Before the elctronic computer came along there were mechanical "computers".

Electronic computers came into use during WWII.

[Lewis]

I've only ever heard those called C-clamps here in the US.

[James Wilkinson]

Because one of us has to be wrong.

[James Wilkinson]

Stop replying to me if you've killfiled me.

The Irish are all stupid. I understand there's a lot of Irish blood in the USA....

[James Wilkinson]

Isn't that rather limited?

[James Wilkinson]

I'd forgotten about muscles, because for some reason I never get cramps.

[James Wilkinson]

We just used Chinese burns. Or a punch on the nose, depending how much you hated the other person.

[James Wilkinson]

[THWAPP!!!] BASIL!!! Don't intimidate the foreign workers!