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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:10:43 GMT, "LP" <lbp1963@nospam.hotmail.com>
wrote:
><DanielBK@unitedstates.com> wrote in message
>news:1135914687.365597.160110@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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>> D.Reid wrote:
>> > "Forceps"???...what the hell are "FORCEPS"???
>> > I been in the "trade" for 30 years and I never heard of nuttin called
>> > forceps!!!...that had anything to do with cleco's...
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>> I am willing to wager that you were never in the Navy. I know Bob was &
>> I've heard other Navy guys call them forceps. Different lingo in
>> different circles. Given theat the tool is not used to ply anything,
>> forceps might even be a more accurate term. Sorry that the world
>> doesn't conform to your expectations.
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>> Daniel
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> If someone at work ask to borrow my forceps, he or she would get a deer in
>the headlight look. However, third drawer down on the right is my CLECO
>pliers. Oh yeah, 23 years in the NAVY.
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I have worked with and around electronics most of my life and computers
since they came on the scene. If you ask for my forceps that is
exactly what is in the second drawer down in the smaller tool box,
right along with a bunch of dentists tools. I think there are probably
a couple of scalpels in there too.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
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Re: The Man Who Couldn't Cleco
