Am listening to "Car Talk" right now, they had a feature of famous last words that included things like, "Nice bear... where's the mother?" and "That's odd..." Cracked me up, and quickly realized there's plenty of those that we hear or say in the shop or while having the ride out & about. Mine is often, "Hey, this is working out great!" What are yours?
A buddy of mine who always wants to "HELP"....(Hal)........"I Got it.......AAAHHH FUCK.....I'm bleeding. Never fails, Hal picks up a tool, you better have 911 ready to go on speed dial.
When I was about 7 my 9 year old brother pulled the wire off the spark plug on our go-kart, handed the end to me, and said "here, hold this" as he pulled the starting cord.
There's a HAMBer who has a signature that goes something like... "... should I shut it off?" I get a kick outta that one.
posting since there's a little message at the top of the forum, reminding me to get off my ass and participate a little. kind of dig that. got a pal who has the tendency to say, "watch this!" right before he bestows some sort of bodily harm on himself. every time i hear him say it i have to look over but sort of not wanting too. heh. usually most times we don't have to go to the ER though, just sometimes. gary
how about the most famous" Looks good from my house" !!! Or my favorite, "you won't see it at 90 mph" JimV
From the guy that used to do the annual inspection on my airplane .....he'd be peering intently at some part on the engine or the airframe and go hmmmmm...... I'd alwys say 'what's wrong?' (with the images of massive amounts of $$$$$ to fix whatever he was 'hmmmmm'ing about).....an he'd say 'oh, nothing'. He did just to make me nuts....and it worked!!!
"I don't see why that won't work....." "We just need to bend it a little more..........." "It's just temporary.........." "That's funny...it never did that before......."
How about "A 15mm wrench is the same as a 9/16....right?" soon followed by bloody knuckles "Nah, I don't need my face shield, I'm just gonna grind this rivet off"
I'm surprised nobody's thrown out "Trust me..." ...or my all time fav: "You might feel SLIGHT discomfort." which is usually followed by "...but only for second or two." ...and of course: "...hey, did I turn that off?"
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