Why is it a bastard?
Why is it a bastard?
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I am intrigued as to why "bastard" is used to describe a particular type of file. Perhaps someone knows.
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RE: Why is it a bastard?
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A friend of mine has a teenage son who has just done a month’s work-experience in a diesel maintenance shop, along with several other youths. He witnessed several examples (“Go and get me two metres of Fallopian Tubing to drain this gearbox”), but fell victim himself to the cruelest of all.
A senior fitter was pulling down a gearbox, and claimed that a bolt-head had been badly damaged by some idiot using a shifter. He looked close and hard, and then announced that the only way to restore it would be to file it back into shape. A bit more pondering and he declared that what was required was a “Pedder”, and sent the lad off to get one. “A what?” he asked, never heaving heard of such a tool. “A Pedder, it’s a kind of file”, came the reply, so off he went.
Having gone just a few yards, the fitter called out after him “Make sure it’s a large, coarse one!”
Apparently, the whole workshop collapsed in gales of laughter when the fresh-faced kid fronted at the counter and asked “Can I have a large, coarse Pedder file, please.”
RE: Why is it a bastard?
I just can't believe it was originally called a B file!
RE: Why is it a bastard?
I can beat that one. About thirty years ago in Ottawa, a woman wrote an automotive help column in a newspaper asking about something call a "rat manure". She declared that her son wanted one and that she was writing out the term incorrectly. The term her son was using was, apparently, unacceptable.
I don't think this one is an urban legend. I'll leave you to figure out what she was after.
JHG
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Guy goes into a hardware store and asks the female clerk for help in finding a particular file. She asks, "How about this big bastard here?" He replies, "Nah, I think this little son of a b**ch will do just fine..."
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While standing on my head looking under the car hood (bonnet) :)
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