Re: OT: Political dead horse


Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:07:30 -0800, John Larkin
> <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >
> >Machinists tend to be interesting guys.
> >
> [snip]
> >
> >John
>
> My father-in-law was a machinist, ran shops in Huntington, WV, then in
> Houston for the big oil firms.
>
> He was doing plasma machining in the late '50's.
>
> Extraordinarily well-read fellow... probably could recite _every_ line
> from _any_ Shakespeare work.
>
> Even back then he was lamenting how hard it was to find a high school
> grad who could read a blueprint ;-)

That rings a bell. One of the machinists at Kent Instruments in Luton
used to cap my Shakespear quotes. Interesting guy. He took over from me
as "office representative" for our trade union when I moved on to EMI
Central Research in West London.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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