Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Friday humor...

2009/4/17 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>
>
> Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:38:04PM +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
> >
> >> However, I do believe there's an unwritten rule between flat pack
> >> manufacturers that states any screws supplied with a given unit are to
> >> be made from processed cheese. I can't believe I'm /that/ incompetent!
> >>
> >
> >    Of course, in the great old days of British engineering, screws in
> > flatpack furniture used to be made of proper Stilton...
>
> True story: a friend of a friend* got his flat-pack sideboard home one
> weekend and set about constructing it.
>
> After a few hours of struggling to make something not even closely
> resembling the photograph on the front of the box, he simply took it out
> in the garden and smashed it to pieces with an axe.
>
> He is a legend in our house.

When my brother was retired from his 'proper' job he went into
business as a general decorator/handyman/driver/Mr Fix-it. Anything
someone needs doing, he will do competently for £10 an hour. One of
his most in-demand skills? Assembling flat pack furniture for people.