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Well folks often measure the intelligence of others with the 'yardstick' of their own intelligence...so go figure.

True and their yardstick is usually a 6 inch ruler!

As a side note, if you ever want to piss off a machinist, ask him if you can use his steel ruler! The scales they use are etched to be a lot more accurate than a ruler ever could be, so they are a scale, and not ruler. Drives them nuts, ROFLOL!

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Ha! I have worked in a few machine shops and know that sentiment very well!

I like to take my own scale when I do this. It is a good way to measure the self importance of whomever I ask. If they are amused, they are easy to work with, if not, I need to watch that individual.

I visit a lot of machine shops when I do CNC repairs, and this is a good filter to tell me the people to avoid, ROFLOL!

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