[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article <angdcaF1p4mU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <keusk1$54t$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
> 	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>
> > If you only have one hammer, you will use it to drive all nails. Believe 
> > me...
> 
> Oh, I understand that.  Most people who look in my toolbox ask why
> I have so many hammers.  Some can understand 2 or even 3 of them,
> but a dozen!
> 
> It stretches the analogy.  Even people who know a hammer isn't for
> screws think 1 hammer any nail.  But even that isn't really correct. 
> It all comes back to the right tool for the job and even in tasks
> most people lthink are simple choosing the right tool might be
> harder than they think.  And that goes triple with computers.

When I worked on a building site one tip I picked up was using a hammer 
to get a screw started into a piece of wood.  This depends on the type 
of wood of course.

In Yorkshire a hammer  is also known as "a Manchester screwdriver", 
usually shortened as in "pass me the Manchester", presumably intended to 
be a snipe at those from across the border in Lancashire.

-- 
Paul Sture