Bush is about as popular as all day arc gouging barefooted.

[Hubert Flottz]

Ouch...that's gotta' hurt.



I think VD is more popular than Cheney.

Sorry no picture of VD, just the VP.

But here is a photo of an abnormal Dick, in it's most natural habitat!



Not much difference at all between our VP and VD...they are equally tragic, troublesome and equally hard to cure.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Poor Cheney...he is like VD but pretends to be Human...approval rating 3.4

He should run for the Presidency and make a FOOL of Himself....

The American Peeps have been put on Notice to be very careful when voting and not to pick someone as evil as those 2 dudes...

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I think Bush/Rove might be trying to cause Dick to be canned

so they can make Jebby the VP.

It's the only way Jeb would ever have a shot now.

[opihimoimoi]

5. HE WOULDN"T DARE...WOOD HE??? Of course he would....

[Hubert Flottz]

6. These guys are out to steal EVERYTHING...

Hell they've got a good start on it already.

[opihimoimoi]

9. You're right...nothing stands in their way....If they can steal 2 elections,,,,they can steal a VP

[Hubert Flottz]

12. I think the pubs steal from each other just to keep the skills sharp

Kerry was right about them being nothing but crooks and liars.

[opihimoimoi]

15. and they (most) are Bullies too. They love to get to make decisions based on Fantasy

[lonestarnot]

19. Nail down the Glen Levitt!

:toast:

[Hubert Flottz]

22. Hell the Sterno ain't even safe around that idiot.

Gilligan would have been a better pResident that Dumbya.

[Jonathan50]

3. A new extreme sport...

Naked arc gouging..

I used to hate doing that.

Heliarc, now that's nice and quiet and clean.

Just do an x ray job so you don't have to arc gouge it out. :)

We had one client that wanted the handrail welds x rayed..

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Arc gouging is the worst.

I always had to arc gouge in a hole someplace where the fire and the sparks had nowhere to go but right back on me. I've burned up more work clothes like that than any other way. Them "Hot Devils" down in the boots is some bad stuff too! The sparks from the inner-shield and the stainless stick rods was about the only thing worse than air arcing about setting yourself on fire down in some little cubbyhole, or up high somewhere where you couldn't get out of the way.

[Jonathan50]

7. I left the oil patch in 1985

N'awlins was a hellhole, I hated sweating my boots full standing in the yard at work at six am..

Never been so glad to escape a place and the oil collapse in the mid 80's gave me a good excuse.

Went from making twelve an hour with all the overtime I could handle to eight and lucky to get forty hours.

The final straw was when I sunk a fifty ton crawling crane halfway up the engine room in the swamp and they had to bring in a hundred ton crane to pull it out. You wouldn't believe the suction that thing had, it took nearly an hour just to break the suction pulling with everything a hundred ton crane had.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I hate the mud worse than sparks!

I drove piling for years and did foundation construction and I think I want to be cremated when I check out, rather than dumped in the damned mud. I worked heavy construction for over 30 years and I've seen a few cable cranes totaled out in my time. Booms tore out or flipped back over the cab. Hammer leads and pilings falling at me. I was quick on my feet and lucky. The unlucky ones were the ones that got between me and a safe place to run to, when things started falling. Feet Don't Fail Me, Shirt Tail Fan Me, was my motto.

"Nothing Runs Like A Deer" except Hubert in distress!

[Jonathan50]

13. I damn near dived off an offshore platform one time..

Seventy feet from the water..

We were cutting grating out from around a gas wellhead.

What we didn't know was the safety shutoffs on the wellhead were operated by gas from the well which was regulated down to a fairly low pressure and then applied to the safety shut off actuators.

Even so, that would have been fine except for one thing..

The piping used for the low pressure gas was plastic :wtf:

Needless to say, the sparks melted the plastic piping and the gas promptly caught fire.

We had no clue, and thought the wellhead was going up and we were about to become toast.

One poor schmuck ran and hid behind some drums that contained methanol. :)

My helper and I took off for the railing intending to die hitting the water rather than being burned to death.

Luckily, just before we dived over the edge the supply of gas ran out and the fire fizzled.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. DU is dangerous enough for me these days...

I don't miss the heat and the cold, the close calls and the cheap thrills, but I do miss the big paychecks.

[opihimoimoi]

8. I still got my Victor Gauges, cutting head and various tips .I can cut up to 1 1/2 " iron, or braze

Haven't done it in years...back yard stuff/level...

My arc welder is kaput...gatta borrow whenever welding...

But yeah, burning holes or gas cutting is a bitch...

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I have a Victor oxy acetylene outfit too and a little mig welder...

I've got a little fab slab set up here to tinker with and fix things that tear up around the place. Handy stuff to have around the home. Sometimes I miss welding day in and day out with those old steady running Lincoln Pipeliners and gas and diesel powered Millers and Hobarts...but I don't miss it that much! I play around with my mig welder enough to keep my hand in though.

I'd have answered you sooner but my internets was down.

[opihimoimoi]

16. N/P...I know da feelin....

[Jonathan50]

17. All I have is a little acetylene/air brazing torch..

And that hasn't been used for at least a decade.

My brother is a serious tool junkie.

A lot of people would really like to live in his workshop, it looks like a Swiss chalet and is bigger than my house.

The sucker is packed with tools for wood and metal working.

He doesn't have mickeywire but he has arc and heliarc, cutting torch, 24 inch industrial planer, a freakin' 42" sawmill outside with a Hercules six cylinder flathead engine to run it. You name it, he's got it.

Now the dumboy has managed to get himself allergic to cocobolo wood because he planed and sanded so much of it that he has sensitized himself to it. Cocobolo is fairly toxic stuff, lots of resins in it.

So I helped him install a huge air filtration system scavenged from a defunct mainframe installation.

Now the air in his shop is cleaner than the air outside..

[opihimoimoi]

18. A Series Toolaholic...some of us are...

Did ya see Bush trying his best to hammer a 6 penny nail a year ago??? Gurly man grip and 16 hits to get the durn nail 1/2 way in a 2x4. Pathetic...if ya ain't a handy man how can ya plan? and if ya can't plan...How ya gonna run a Nation?

[Jonathan50]

20. Choking up on the hammer, eh?

I'm not all that good with the hammer any more, getting old and losing strength in my grip. All I really do is tap away on the keyboard now, and I'm thinking of going to a voice recognition system for that.

I do have a callus on my palm where it rests on my trackball though. :)

Fifteen years ago when my brother built his first house a crew of six amateurs and one serious pro framed it and put half the joists on in one day. The pro said we were the best framing crew he had worked with in quite a while.

I appreciated the compliment.

Seeing Bush working in the oil patch would be a hoot.

Fitter's helper would be the job for him.

Send him after a skyhook and he'd never come back.. :)

Watching him remove a bunch of skin with an angle grinder would be way cool too.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. I heard that...

The reason Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air Guard was, that the guys working on his plane, sent Bush out looking for a can of squelch and he's still looking for it to this day.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. I remember the first summer George was the pResident he tried

to help build a house down in Texas for a photo op and he hit his finger with the hammer. There was a picture of his royal Boo-Boo all wrapped up in band-aides going around the internets.

They say at college George would nail about anything that would hold still for it though. I guess he was so busy partying he forgot to learn anything.

[Jonathan50]

24. I doubt anyone could have partied much harder than I did at that age..

But somehow I managed to learn a thing or two too.

Hmmm... Maybe it has something to do with being a spoiled rich kid who never had any contact with the rough and tumble world outside his walled compound.

[Hubert Flottz]

25. The whole world is paying for that silver spoon in George's snout.

Too many dead brain cells...we just couldn't afford the quality and the quantity of dope and booze George could, I reckon.