In message <199408171818.AA04673@alpine.b17a.ingr.com> T.J. Higgins writes:
> Will Z. wrote:
> > > so let me try again (who actually discoverd shipwright's disease?)
>
> TeriAnn wrote:
> > Shipwrights disease.... I first read about it in 1986, or '87. I was
> > mentioning
> > some work I was doing on the TR3 when someone on this list (yes there were
> > some
> > of us here back then)
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> The earliest reference to shipwright's/fitter's disease that I could
> find in the archives is from SOL #315:
>
> # Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 09:18:47 -0700
> # From: Wayne Angevine <angevine@badger.Colorado.EDU>
> # Subject: Joke
> #
> # >From this month's Wooden Boat magazine:
> #
> # Q: How many shipwrights does it take to change a lightbulb?
> #
> # A: As long as you're changing the bulb, you really ought to
> # replace that fixture, and the wire is chafing a bit there,
> # and that junction box is pretty funky, and it's mounted on
> # rotten post...
> --
> T.J. Higgins | tjhiggin@ingr.com | (205) 730-7922
> Intergraph Corp. | Mapping Sciences Division | Huntsville, AL, USA
It dates well back before there started being a digest. But I'm glad that the
basic story is archived.
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TeriAnn Wakeman Large format photographers look at the world
twakeman@apple.com upside down and backwards
LINK: TWAKEMAN
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