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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (14143)	10/30/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

Another wise tidbit of safety advice: "If you should happen to lacerate your scrotum while masturbating on a machine shop floor during your lunch hour, don't attempt to suture the wound with heavy duty staples." #reply-6201039

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (14143)	10/30/1998 3:34:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

It's "whose eye". "WHOSE eye." How come you guys don't ever teach me nothin? Huh? You never even say anything. Whose eye. Like Whoosiers and Buckeyes.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (14143)	10/30/1998 3:48:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

When I used to work at the big machine shop, a phrase I hated to hear was "Did you get the finger?" I was working on a large metal turning lathe one week and got one o my dashing curls caught in the 180 rpm rotating head block. When I got up close to look-y at something. This lathe was probably an eight foot with a 1500 pound shaft chucked up. It pulled me within an inch, I'd say, for sure, of the blur of the square head chocks. Within a tenth of a second. Three to five eighths from my left eye. Instead, however, of pounding me into chuck immediately, a chunk of volunteer skin on the top of my head tore off, and I bounced back from the waist. Then I sat down for a minute. And just let that thing spin. I couldn't even shut it off. That'll put the fear of large turning lathe blocks in ya.