Don't leave tools lying around...

[Bob Eager]

Amusing (in parts) but also scary...

http://t.co/PtTA2Yce

[Owain]

Owain

[brass monkey]

Pertish pair of norks.

[jgharston]

JGH

[Andy Burns]

[ARWadsworth]

[Huge]

[Steve Firth]

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.

[The Medway Handyman]

[Bob Eager]

A student found it. Honest.

[Tim Streater]

Or ball pane hammer?

[Mike Barnes]

Tim Streater :

As it happens there's a discussion right now on alt.usage.english of how "pein" is pronounced. I say "peen".

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Mike Barnes writes

I'd say you are correct:-)

regards

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[John Rumm]

Yeah, because compared to real wrestling its just so fake ;-)

[Mike Barnes]

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?

[jgharston]

I just call them ball hammer, claw hammer, pick hammer (tho' that's really called a rock hammer).

JGH

[grimly4]

It was 'peen' when I was a lad, and since. Small hammers were known as 'toffee hammers', for some reason.

[geoff]

In message , [e-mail] 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?

[brass monkey]

O crap, I remember it too. It's later than you think, Geoff ;)

[grimly4]

I don't think I ever saw a packet of toffee with a hammer in it. That was for posh folk.