Pedantic question about standardisation

[E. von Hoegh]

... but back to the topic (originally) at hand. Y'know what always confused me: the similarity between a C-clamp and a G-cramp.

Cramps are used in Japan.

 

[BrianShaw]

Do you mean Adolf Hitler?

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[E. von Hoegh]

There is very little to fear from ordinary citizens.

I would say nothing, if you believe the statistics. More to fear from doctors, with something like 80,000 nosocomial deaths per year compared to around 1500 deaths due to accidental shootings.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

IIRC, Nobels are not awarded posthumously.

Exhumation is still a possibility...

 

[blansky]

I would say nothing, if you believe the statistics. More to fear from doctors, with something like 80,000 nosocomial deaths per year compared to around 1500 deaths due to accidental shootings.

What about the on purpose shootings?

 

[E. von Hoegh]

There's an underlying sentiment in parts of the US that goes something like "I'm a uneducated moron and @#!*% proud of it".

"From bastards too dumb to realise there is any such thing as smart, may the good lord preserve us"

 

[E. von Hoegh]

What about the on purpose shootings?

Still way behind the doctors. 30,000 or so.

 

[Leigh B]

If procreation required a user's manual the human race would have died out millenia ago.

... before writing was invented.

- Leigh

 

[blansky]

Still way behind the doctors. 30,000 or so.

So your thesis is, we shouldn't let the doctors have guns because they already have a head start?

 

[Steve Smith]

And you have the right to arm bears.


Steve.

 

[Leigh B]

So in order to control population growth, perhaps we should write one...

... and tattoo it in the lumbar region.

The Greeks had it right 2500 years ago.

- Leigh

 

[E. von Hoegh]

So you're thesis is, we shouldn't let the doctors have guns because they already have a head start?

Not really. But, I avoid doctors.

 

[Steve Smith]

One of the words that really annoys me is comptroller.

Is that a real word? I have only heard it used on The Simpsons. Still, I suppose it is a perfectly cromulent word if you think about it.


Steve.

 

[blansky]

Not really. But, I avoid doctors.

Especially where they hang out in gangs.


Like hospitals.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Especially where they hang out in gangs.


Like hospitals.

Yes, they're much worse in gangs. They always have each others' back.

 

[blansky]

Yes, they're much worse in gangs. They always have each others' back.

You can tell them by their gang colors, white and light blue.

 

[Leigh B]

Is that a real word?

Comptroller is a government functionary, like the Comptroller of the Treasury at the federal level, or state Comptrollers.

Controller, in contrast, is a financial position within a corporation.

Both are well-defined and understood functions on this side of the pond.

- Leigh

 

[E. von Hoegh]

... and tattoo it in the lumbar region.

The Greeks had it right 2500 years ago.

- Leigh

Kind of a didactic tramp stamp filling the rhomboid of Michaelis, assuming she's svelte enough to have said rhomboid?

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Is that a real word? I have only heard it used on The Simpsons. Stiil, I suppose it is a perfectly cromulent word if you think about it.
Steve.

Yes, a genuine word so says the OED. Which by the way gives the correct pronounciation.

 

[Leigh B]

They always have each others' back.

They look awfully stupid walking down the hall that way, in pairs, ass to ass, scalpels at the ready and stethoscopes cocked.

- Leigh

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Yes, a genuine word so says the OED. Which by the way gives the correct pronounciation.

My dyslexia was acting up, I at first thought he typed "crapulent".

 

[blansky]

They look awfully stupid walking down the hall that way, in pairs, ass to ass, scalpels at the ready and stethoscopes cocked.

- Leigh

They used to be joined by the hippocratic oath.

 

[Leigh B]

They used to be joined by the hippocratic oath.

That was replaced long ago by the Mega-HedgeFund Oath.

Recently it's been complicated by the TimeShare Condominium conundrum.

- Leigh

 

[blansky]

That was replaced long ago by the Mega-HedgeFund Oath.

Recently it's been complicated by the TimeShare Condominium dilemma.

- Leigh

Agreed. Such a dilemma

"ass to ass" .... HIP-pocratic ....ass --Hip get it.....I know kinda obscure


Which reminds me.........

 

[lxdude]

They used to be joined by the hippocratic oath.

I was thinking "joined at the Hippocratic Oath".