On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Timothy Colson wrote:
> >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)
>
>
My dad used to call the hammer an "Italian fine adjustment tool".
Of course being Italian, it gave him a bit of lattitude re:
"political correctness".
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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