>At 07:33 08-06-95 BST, Phil Willson wrote:
>>> A non-politically-correct friend of mine calls a hammer a 'Mexican
>>> speedwrench'.
>>
>>A.K.A. a 'Birmingham Screwdriver' in the Old Country. But I didn't
>>say that - it was thought of well before political correctness came into
>>vogue.
>>Phil
>>
>Funny, where I come from, we Canucks have been known to call hammers
>"American screwdrivers". Must be a north-south thing. Thank God we now
>have free trade to help sort this out. :>
>
>Rod.
My dad, who'll never ever ever be PC, used to call a hammer a "persuading
device", and as a corollary - a sledge hammer was a "very persuading
device".
Timo
"I didn't do it." -Timothy L. Colson (tlcolson@jaxnet.com)
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