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Re: Hammer Talk

To: Phil Willson <P.J.Willson@qmw.ac.uk>, "Himelfarb, Mike" <mike@sdm.ShoppersDrugMart.ca>
Subject: Re: Hammer Talk
From: rorr@eagle.wbm.ca (Rodney Orr)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:08:11 GMT
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
At 07:33 08-06-95 BST, Phil Willson wrote:
>> A non-politically-correct friend of mine calls a hammer a 'Mexican 
>> speedwrench'.
>
>A.K.A. a 'Birmingham Screwdriver' in the Old Country.  But I didn't 
>say that - it was thought of well before political correctness came into 
>vogue.
>
>Phil
>
Funny, where I come from, we Canucks have been known to call hammers
"American screwdrivers".  Must be a north-south thing.  Thank God we now
have free trade to help sort this out. :>

Rod.
'70 TR6
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Rodney Orr
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aa097@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca


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