The Stripped Screw

[shereads]

isn't nearly as much fun as you'd think.

I'm in Home Maintenance Hell. Some thoughts:

1. Why is the flat metal disc called a washer? What kind of stupid name is that for a flat metal disc? (Second part of question was rhetorical.)

2. I'm entering Day Four of assembling a fool-proof closet system. I'm no fool!

3. Tomorrow the electrician arrives, theoretically, to install a closet light. Simple, no?

No. It's never simple. I have a baaaad feeling about this. But nothing could be worse than the stripped screw. That sucks.

 

[Vermilion]

isn't nearly as much fun as you'd think.

I'm in Home Maintenance Hell. Some thoughts:

1. Why is the flat metal disc called a washer? What kind of stupid name is that for a flat metal disc? (Second part of question was rhetorical.)

2. I'm entering Day Four of assembling a fool-proof closet system. I'm no fool!

3. Tomorrow the electrician arrives, theoretically, to install a closet light. Simple, no?

No. It's never simple. I have a baaaad feeling about this. But nothing could be worse than the stripped screw. That sucks.

I'm marrying an engineer. Thank God. Technically I'd probably be able to manage DIY and home maintenance, but I am clumsy and keep injuring myself and I have a low pain threshold. It's bad enough letting me near knifes, graters, peelers and heated appliances when I'm cooking or styling my hair.

x
V

ps- engineer he may be, but he couldn;t answer the Washer query. Useless.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Here She

washer

"flat ring for sealing joints or holding nuts," 1346, generally considered an agent noun of wash (q.v.), but the sense connection is difficult, and the noun may derive instead from the ancestor of Fr. vis "screw, vise."

 

[oggbashan]

Old Joke

1930s Signals between flagship Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet and Malta Base:

From Flagship to Base at 0930:
"Arriving 1030 hours. Please send Admiral's woman."

From Base to Flagship at 0935:
"Your 0930 signal not understood. Which woman?"

From Flagship to Base at 0940:
"Reference our signal of 0930. Please insert washer between Admiral and Woman."

From Base to Flagship at 0945:
"Your signals of 0930 and 0940. Woman prepared for action."

Og

 

[shereads]

1930s Signals between flagship Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet and Malta Base:

From Flagship to Base at 0930:
"Arriving 1030 hours. Please send Admiral's woman."

From Base to Flagship at 0935:
"Your 0930 signal not understood. Which woman?"

From Flagship to Base at 0940:
"Reference our signal of 0930. Please insert washer between Admiral and Woman."

From Base to Flagship at 0945:
"Your signals of 0930 and 0940. Woman prepared for action."

Og

Can someone translate this into American Non-Navese?

 

[oggbashan]

Can someone translate this into American Non-Navese?

Explaining a joke is always groan-making but...

The original message should have said "Please send Admiral's washer-woman" (to do his laundry). Omitting the washer gave the message a different (and rude) meaning.

Inserting "Washer" in the message should have restored the original meaning except that "washer" WAS also a synonym for condom.

Og (Ducking as rotten fruit is thrown)

 

[shereads]

Og (Ducking as rotten fruit is thrown)

I was going to eat that pear!

 

[Tom Collins]

Sorry, but I have to say it...the title of this thread sounds like a porn story.

 

[jomar]

Home projects always take twice as long as you think plus three trips to the hardware store.

 

[Jubal_Harshaw]

Sorry, but I have to say it...the title of this thread sounds like a porn story.

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to chaste.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

WASHER is a contraction of "Was here", meaning a part that you put down a minute ago and has now disappeared and they don't make anymore even though the thing you need it for won't work without it.

Due to a powerul, unresolved BDSM-related fetish, I spent my childhood lurking around hardware stores and actually know the names for all that stuff and even know when you should use a star versus a split-ring lock washer and can identify the elusive acorn nut and stove bolt versus machine screw and the advantages of stainless steel versus chrome plate and oh, oH! OHHHH!!!!

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOL

Been there done that, more than once.

Finished the floors, now its time for the walls.

I have ripped out/ removed the paneling in the living room. I have had to replace one of the studs. (it had some dry rot in it.) I have also added extra fittings which now hold studs. (I have changed the stu setting from 18 inches to 9 inches, thereby strengthening the walls.)

Cat

 

[Dar~]

WASHER is a contraction of "Was here", meaning a part that you put down a minute ago and has now disappeared and they don't make anymore even though the thing you need it for won't work without it.

Due to a powerul, unresolved BDSM-related fetish, I spent my childhood lurking around hardware stores and actually know the names for all that stuff and even know when you should use a star versus a split-ring lock washer and can identify the elusive acorn nut and stove bolt versus machine screw and the advantages of stainless steel versus chrome plate and oh, oH! OHHHH!!!!

Doc, I think I just came

 

[angelicminx]

LeRuse and I run a handyman service. DIY repair is part of our livelyhood...









Fixing DIY mistakes is the other part.



(A stripped screw is a fucking bitch. )