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Re: Precision Tools List

To: LeBrun@hii.hitachi.com
Subject: Re: Precision Tools List
From: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 96 15:55:52 PDT
>      
>               -There must be more ex-hippie & ex-guitar playing people
>                around than I thought. Who else would know who Django
>                Reinhardt is (was?)

Guess that's one of the down sides of having worked for the military
industrial complex during the 60s.  Never heard of this...person? 
or whatever.


>      
>               -Whitworth tools??? God, everytime I see my pops, he's still
>                trying to "give" me his Whitworth "collection" from his TR-4
>                days. He even trys to bribe me with alcohol, but it doesn't
>                work.Besides, guys always want tools they'll never use, just
>                to have them in their roll-around to impress their buddies.
>      
>                But, I drew the line at his Whitworth stuff. I even          
>                suggested "leaving" them in front of his house on the curb 
>                so somebody could steal them. He declined, because once they 
>                got them home they'd realize they wouldn't fit anything, so
>                they'd get mad and throw them through his front window.
>      
>                Sometimes your parents can still be perceptive about stuff.
>      
>                                    Phil

I'll happily take your old man's Whitworth tools!

Roland 

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