New things learned.

[Weatherlawyer]

After several years in the trade and not a few weeks over that period spent struggling with recalcitrant vehicles, I found out something I should have known years ago.

I went to a builder's suppliers to get a couple of 12 mm bolts. So the man comes back with a couple that are about 1/4 inch too large for my needs.

"No; I want something about 2/3rds that thickness." I say, astonished.

"That'll be 8 mm then." "Whuh.. It will?"

I think about this as he comes back with two half inch bolts that are exactly the right size.

I knew that. Smarra-me? I didn't half feel silly!

[Paul Herber]

Has anybody seen WL and dribble at the same time?

[robgraham]

=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0

don't think that dribble has ever admitted to being in error !! Rob

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Weatherlawyer saying something like:

What? Your storeman was on crack.

8mm, 12mm are the width of the threads. As is a half-inch bolt.

[The Medway Handyman]

Can someone buy me a pint of whatever he's drinking?

[John Rumm]

What are you going on about?