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1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto the blockage will be almost instantly removed.
2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.
3. Avoid arguments with the little woman about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.
4. For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.
5. A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.
7. Have a bad toothache? Smash your thumb with a hammer and you will forget about the toothache.
Sometimes, we just need to remember what the rules of life really are:
You only need two tools: WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
Remember:
Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
Never pass up an opportunity to go to the bathroom.
If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.
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lol, I think every trade tends to "fix stuff" with materials of said trade. My uncle was hvac guy, early on in the "central a/c" boom. Fixed EVERYTHING with duct tape. Going quail hunting? entire right side of pickup cab neatly layered in grey..."Why?"
"So Joe can ride inside."
Joe being the prize German shorthaired pointer, of course.
My electrician buddy makes every temporary fix with either conduit (remember, you can shape it or smash it "flat"), electrical tape (our "Band-Aids) or Romex...
Carpenters use wood scraps, builder's adhesive, deck screws--or just finish "it" off with a hammer...
on and on...
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i love my battery powered DeWalt drill, and drywall screws
one time i even shot a 3 inch drywall screw ALL the way thru the the big knuckle on the middle finger of my left hand.... i was screwing a latch onto a kiln door, and the grip on the sheet metal made the screw go thru so fast, i couldn't stop in time i had to unscrew it myself to get it out too, since i couldn't go anywhere till i got it out anyway
saved a 1000$ by doing it myself tho
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i was looking at the screws in the hinges on the door and trying to figure out whether i could unscrew all nine of them and take the whole door to the ER, but since it weighed about 120 pounds, i decided it would be easier to just unscrew the one in my finger....
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I use a Milwaukee gun--slightly less torque than the DeWalt, but better a little better service record. Just recently was using a DeWalt...with a little more torque...fitted with a torx driver, punching 3-inch screws into bridge runners over sawmill decking. Yikes--don't let those babies slip...I did, and the torx driver *pulled* meat from my finger--woulda been better off with a drill bit, lol
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i had to unscrew it myself to get it out too, since i couldn't go anywhere till i got it out anyway ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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