I've been reading the classified ads for used saws. I've seen a variety advertised and just can't make up my mind which one would be best.
The selections are: Ban saw Arm saw Arm saw, radial Radeo arm saw with DATO Radial saw
I'm thinking the DATO would be nice to have. Can I use it on a Ban saw?
Dear Ed,
Don't forget the venerable Radio Alarm Saw.
David.
You sure can just duck tape it on and stand back.
Are you "from" Poland or just "in" Poland?
todd
It would be nice, if not nearly as amusing, if the classified order takers had some basic idea about what you were talking about when you dictate the ad.
Tom Veatch Wichita, KS USA
had some basic idea about what you were talking about
What gets me it that the same error is repeated in a local paper week, after week, after week with different ads. Stuff happens, but at some point you'd think it would be noticed. Ed snipped-for-privacy@snet.net
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Reading argain News again??
Sticky Keys.. My kids have been at the computer.
I meant to say: Reading Bargain News again??
Have you been reading the "Bargain News"?
I've noticed they also list traylors, plainers, etc...
A lot of stuff not listed for sale anywhere else can be found in that paper / web site!
Barry
In this case it is mostly "The Reminder", an east of the river shoppers rag.
I'm going to buy a plainer to simplify my life. But isn't a traylor the guy that fixes your pants? Ed
Is that the paper that has a column where people can bitch into an answering machine and it gets printed?
If it is, I used to read it when I worked in East Hartford. That column was pretty funny at times.
Barry
That is the main reason for reading it; you can always get a good laugh.
Every week in the Machinery/saws column there are half a dozen Shopsmiths, Craftsman table saws, and a couple arm saws and ban saws. I've yet to find a bargain, but I figure sooner or later some widow will want to get rid of her husband's Unisaw for $20 bucks and I'll grab it. Ed snipped-for-privacy@snet.net
Same reason that I look at the New Britain paper. Some old widow looking to clear out an inventory of planes(Stanleys or some Baileys).
On another note it is depressing when you drive through NB and reflect back on those Stanley commercials of Hometown Pride of NB, Ct. There is absolutely nothing left. Well, almost.
Rich
Ed Pawlowski notes:
Especially by the clown who placed the ad. It's a bit of a stretch to expect an
18 or 19 year old typist to know the ins and outs of every major hobby in the US or Canada. But you would think that someone who places an ad and pays for it would be motivated to make sure the copy is somewhere close to correct.Charlie Self "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." Thomas Paine
On 25 Apr 2004 23:20:50 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnotforme (Charlie Self) brought forth from the murky depths:
I once (in another life in LoCal) had a drone from the Pennysaver call me about a properly written and edited ad in the local paper. He wanted me to put it in the Pennysaver, too. I bit, he did it, and I called him and tore him a new a**hole the day it came out. First off, he put it in the wrong cities. Second, they retyped it so my ad then said "computer softwear tutoring".
It's one thing to screw up, but to do so with a perfectly good copy of the ad right in front of him is downright BRAINDEAD. They lost a customer for life with that one, even though they ran it in the correct cities for double the time I paid for.
4 years of business reputation killed in one instant by a FIDIOT...Do papers even HAVE editors any more?
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Some do, most don't. But no editor reviews the classified ads or other ads. And a Pennysaver is not a newspaper.
Charlie Self "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." Thomas Paine
Ed Pawlowski responds:
Yeah, well...how do you motivate a person who spent a dozen years or more in school and never learned to spell simple words, who didn't learn the difference between possessives and plurals in even the most fundamental terms (without the complexity of its and it's, their and they're)? I've seen people who are supposedly businessmen and women who have advanced degrees who can't do that, so how do we effectively chastise someone who gets minimum wage for doing the same thing the supposedly educated person making 80 or 100 grand does?
You're right, of course. It just doesn't seem to work that way, at least with any frequency.
Charlie Self "Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger." Thucydides
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