short buckets

She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented.

I said, "A folding bottle."

She said, "Okay, what do you call it?"

"A Fottle."

"What else do you have?"

"A folding carton."

"What do you call it?"

"A Farton."

She sniggered and said, "Those are silly names for products and one of them sounds kind of crude."

I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left the office without even telling her about my folding bucket.

In spite of the fact that I'm one of the contributors/promoters of what I've noticed lately is becoming a lower standard of decorum on this site, I agree with you. As a matter of fact, yesterday I decided that I should apologize for my part in lowering the standards and suggest that we make an effort to get back to the more refined, less raunchy level of discourse that this site has enjoyed for a long time.

I think I will bring it up as a separate issue later today if I get a chance because this particular string is about played out and I wouldn't expect many readers to notice anything that is newly posted in it now.

Thanks for bringing it up.

All the best, Stan

P.S. Just to be fair about it, if the humor at the beginning of this string would be better left to the comedy channel, the humor at the end would be better left to the Hee Haw channel, or the All Corn Network.

I'm not talking about funny, I'm talking about vulgar. If a folding bottle is a fottle, and a folding carton is a farton, then you can easily figure out what a folding bucket is. I thought Bob's joke was clever, too. That's not really the point. What I'm talking about is that I've noticed a recent increase in what I would call R rated, and sometimes hard R rated material on this site. I think their would be some benefits in asking for a voluntary moratorium on swearing, cursing, obscenity, vulgarity, and profanity. I know that there is a filter to prohibit some words, but does anyone not know what someone means when they write a$$h*les or describe someone as being full of sh!t?

I'm not sensitive about words. There are endless ways someone can offend me by what they say, but there are no words (or very few) that can offend me without being in some context. My contention is not that foul language is offensive, but that it is disrespectful. Self restraint and civility are, in my opinion, indications of maturity and intellectual development. Besides, a clean site is a happy site.

All the best, Stan

P.S. I'm going to try the welding experiment you suggested (horizontal fillets on T-joints with 7018, followed by some v-ups) to test slag removal, hopefully tomorrow morning. I'll post my findings.

Ozander