How many curse words does it take......

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren Henderson on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 12:43 pm:

How many curse words does it take to install a simple horn button? It's a good thing my Dad served in the USN during WWII and I managed to over hear a few of these informative words. Which I had to use today installing my third horn button.

Happy motoring, Warren


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 01:08 pm:

Warren
The more the merrier in some cases.

Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Gumbinger, Kenosha, WI on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 01:12 pm:

Just be thankful that you didn't have to install them on the assembly line, about one per minute.

In a previous life (1963 to 1965) I was an "assembler" on the line at American Motors Corporation here in Kenosha. When you have a task that seems almost impossible, you somehow learn to do it. Been there, done that.

It would be good if everyone could see a final assembly line where cars abe being built. Think of the speed and sequencing, etc. of everything involved.

Keith


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dana A. Crosby in Glendale, Az on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 01:20 pm:

Warren,

As a wee lad in New Hampshire (early '50s), I recall lots of bad words my Dad used. Many of them started with "wicked".....It takes a bunch of creative language, sometimes, to get T bits to work correctly!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 01:20 pm:

Sometimes the English language is just an inadequate means to fully express yourself. It happens to me all the time and I spent four years in the Navy! All one can do is work to expand the envelope at every opportunity. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Penserini on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 01:23 pm:

Beyond curse words, my repop ended up on my garage roof.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Gruber- Spanaway, Wash. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 01:38 pm:

I saw a sign in a garage a while back.
It said "caution--flying tools in this area!"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren Henderson on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 02:51 pm:

The problem was, after installing the horn button, the horn would not work. Come to find out the button itself was not making contact internally,thus no horn.

Happy motoring, Warren


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By kep on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 04:24 pm:

Requires all of them.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Manuel, Lafayette, La. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 05:12 pm:

Reminds me of the father in "A Christmas Story" working on the furnace---a tapestry of profanity still floating somewhere out over Lake Michigan!!! My transmission bands brought me to that point, especially when the nut went into the abyss.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Henrichs on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 06:46 pm:

When I first go to the shop to work on the T, I open the door and say all the "bad words" I can think of and call the T all the rotten names I know. After I calm down then I work on the T. Everything goes together fine: No problem with horn switch, easy to put on bendix cover; even can change band lining with the bands still in the car. NO problems. Sure saves time to be verbally proactive than reactive. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By CharlesHebert on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 07:39 pm:

I call it plumbing language!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren Henderson on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 08:25 pm:

Thanks for all the advise. Dennis, I'm not sure I feel that I could call Sambuca (My trusty steed) all those bad words and I have never used that kind of language in his presence (well almost never, but never at him). I also think I'll make me one of Bob's signs. Henry is correct, in that the English language is inadequate. Mike, I hope you got your repop off the roof. I hear you John, I hear you. Charles, you don't suppose that a few of my truck driving words came to mind.

Happy motoring, Warren


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 08:33 pm:

Proven fact: Those who cuss during a particularly difficult job experience less stress and lower blood pressure.

happy cussin'


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 08:42 pm:

Dang Bud, if that's true my BP should be 0/0! :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Henrichs on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 08:48 pm:

Uh oh, I better shut my mouth before I flatline! Too much of a good thing. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Borland. Bathurst. NSW. Australia. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 09:05 pm:

#$%^&*$# *^$%*^$%# *&^%$**&$%@!^

Peter


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Borland. Bathurst. NSW. Australia. on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 09:08 pm:

Hey! Thats not what I typed!!

Bloody censors!!

LOL!!!

Peter


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Woods, Katy, Texas on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 09:57 pm:

Or be thankful your favorite clergyman was not you helper, today.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Weir on Monday, July 01, 2013 - 09:17 am:

My father was not a religious man, however I never heard him use profane language.

When he was really angry, he would say " SEARS ROEBUCK." It was said loudly and with great contempt! There was no doubt in anyone's mind that this was the most passionate word he could imagine

Jim Weir


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Monday, July 01, 2013 - 06:24 pm:

In Buffalo, N.Y. there is a street called Seneca Street and like any street long enough, it had a bridge on it called Seneca Bridge.

When my father in law got mad at anything, his favorite expression (cuss word ?) was "seneca bridge it got damaged"

But say it quick enough and it comes out "senecabritchitgotdamached".

Sounds enough like cussin' to fool most people !! Sure fooled me the first time I heard it, until my then wife to be, explained what he was really saying.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Dare - Just a little South West . on Thursday, July 04, 2013 - 02:48 am:

At Least one more.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Hycner on Thursday, July 04, 2013 - 06:12 am:

While growing up I never heard my father utter a cuss word even thought he worked on the railroad and owned a bar. when I was about 11 he was fixing something at home and smashed his finger with a hammer. I heard 11 yrs of profanity come out of his mouth in an instant. I peered around the corner, he did not know I was home. He was so embarrassed and I was amazed at what I heard.
I uttered the same while trying to install my horn button..........Not one of Ford's "better ides"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Warren Henderson on Thursday, July 04, 2013 - 06:32 am:

It wasn't the installation that was the problem, it was that the horn button itself was not correctly made and thus I keep taking it apart and reinstalling it over and over, until I realized that the button was not making contact internally.

Happy motoring, Warren

ps: horn works fine without the button, I just press it with my finger.



pps: Mr. T checks out my Dog Catchers Wagon.


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