22 Apr
2011
22 Apr
'11
1:52 p.m.
A buddy of mine worked as a cameraman in the film
inudstry - he used
to sent new guys out to the van for the film stretcher (the excuse
being that regular 35mm cassettes only hold about 12 min of footage,
but you can get 14 minutes, 15 if you're lucky, with the film
stretcher). In carpentry, I hear it's the board stretcher. Every
The 'cable stretcher' is another one (for when you've cut the wire a
little too short ;-)), although of course a tool for tensioning cables
when running overhead lines does esixt.
The 'noise emitting diode' (by analogy with a 'light emitting diode') is
another thing to get newbies to attempt to order ;-)
And there's a well-known set of diagrams of non-existant screws -- things
like a screw with a step in the middle for use when the holes don't line
up. Again, newbies are often sent out to get a box of items from said list.
The reverse of this joke is to ask for things that genuinely do exist but
sound like they shouldn't. 'All pass filters' for example. Newbies who
think they can spot a joke a mile off generally assume this is another
spoof...
industry has something.
Indeed. The poiint is, though that in all these examples, the newbie has
a little time wasted and gets a bit embarassed, but that's all. No real
damage, no danger. WHich is rather different to keeping somebody working
for 30 hours doing a job that could result in loss of life if it's not
done properly.
-tony