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Re: Insert Tab A into...wait, which one's Slot B?
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Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:06:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote: • ,>
   1 - At least most of the ones I’ve personally helped fill out the responses to do not say lowest bidder wins. Perhaps most of the ones you’ve responded to don’t, I can’t say.

We never even got to the point of bidding. The one time when we were offered a government contract, it was a situation where the Navy was asking us to vacuum-form parts that required internal supports and a level of micro-detail that could only be produced through injection-molding. We did get a good laugh out of it, though...

Remember the govenment’s tolerances rule:

Measured with a micrometer Marked with chauk Cut with an ax

Lester



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  Re: Insert Tab A into...wait, which one's Slot B?
 
(...) You know, I found that quite amusing at first, but then I got to remembering stuff, like how when you work with steel, you have to use sticks of soapstone to make your cut marks if you want to be able to see them easily. And how I got to (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Insert Tab A into...wait, which one's Slot B?
 
(...) I seem to remember hearing something to that effect in a poli sci class back in high school, but we might have been given a simplified version (since, after all, it wouldn't make sense for them to accept a $1000 bid from me to build a working (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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