Amusing (in parts) but also scary...
http://t.co/PtTA2Yce
Don't leave tools lying around...
Apr 06, 2012
20 Replies
Owain
Pertish pair of norks.
JGH
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I'm extremely disappointed that no one has pointed out that it is extremely unlikely that she was hit with a monkey wrench. A monkey wrench is not the same thing as a pipe wrench and that is a more likely object to be used in an attack because it's a modern tool (relatively) and because idiots often refer to a pipe wrench as a monkey wrench. Other than that, not much DIY content in the article.
A student found it. Honest.
Or ball pane hammer?
Tim Streater :
As it happens there's a discussion right now on alt.usage.english of how "pein" is pronounced. I say "peen".
In message , Mike Barnes writes
I'd say you are correct:-)
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Yeah, because compared to real wrestling its just so fake ;-)
Tim Lamb :
Well, "correct" is a word viewed with great suspicion in a.u.e - if a lot of people say "pain", and understand each other perfectly, who's to say they're wrong?
I just call them ball hammer, claw hammer, pick hammer (tho' that's really called a rock hammer).
JGH
It was 'peen' when I was a lad, and since. Small hammers were known as 'toffee hammers', for some reason.
In message , snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes
Isn't it because when you and I were kids, you could get a slab of Thorntons toffee which had a small hammer in the packaging to break uyp the toffee?
O crap, I remember it too. It's later than you think, Geoff ;)
I don't think I ever saw a packet of toffee with a hammer in it. That was for posh folk.
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