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Editor’s Note: Somebody sent me a YouTube link, and although interesting, it was not something that I felt the need to post here, but one of the other clips on the site caught my eye:

Editor’s Note: Here is another video that came in a .wmv version attached to an email. It is an LG commercial showing a bikini model photo shoot with a surprise ending!!

Editor’s Note: This video on Male Fertility came to me by a modern alternative to email: Blog Comment Spam. The video was not listed, but it was displayed on the site of the comment spammer. It is only partly tongue in cheek, but you may find some comedy value to viewing this video.

Editor’s Note: Here we go again. I got this video as an attachment to an email. I checked and it was there on YouTube sure enough! The video contains valuable information about gas well fracking. Don’t have any idea what gas well fracking is?? Watch the video and you may know more than you ever wanted to know.

Tools Explained


DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.

WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light . Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh shit!’

SKIL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.

PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.

BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.

HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle… It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.

TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes , trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.

TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.

STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.

PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.

HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. It is especially valuable at being able to find the EXACT location of the thumb or index finger of the other hand.

UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.

SON-OF-A-B%%%% TOOL: (A personal favorite!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling ‘Son of a B%%%%!’ at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

Hope you found this informative. There is no need to send me a thank you note. No trees were harmed in the creation or transmission of this message. However, a large number of electrons were temporarily inconvenienced.  

Make it a Great Day!

Editor’s Note: The link came to me by email where this video was posted on another site, but checking YouTube shows the same vid. They may even carry them at ShopInPrivate??

The video no longer is available to embed, but you can view it on YouTube here.

I have always been fascinated by football trivia and I thought you might be interested in this bit of trivia as well.

Where did the Texas longhorn logo idea come from?

I did not know this!!!

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Editor’s Note: A link to this video on an other video sharing site came in an email today. A quick search of YouTube turned up the same video posted there, so I now share it with you. This is a candid camera type video, so if you like people watching you will have fun with this one!