On Fri, 23 May 2008 18:44:08 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:

>On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:01:09 -0400, Boron Elgar
> fired up random neurons and synapses to
>opine:
>
>>I was taught the displacement method of measuring Crisco in an 8th
>>grade Home Ec class. That was in 1963.
>
>High five, girl, as I learned the same thing in Home Ec in 1964.
>Doesn't work worth a damn, AFAICS, as you still get grease on the
>glass measure, so what have you gained?
>
>[And I bailed on that Home Ec class - only girls were "allowed" to
>take Home Ec and only boys were "allowed" to take shop. I went to war
>about it on my second or third day into the Home Ec class. My dear
>aulde dad backed me up. Upshot was, I got to take shop - and jammed a
>cold chisel into my hand on my second or third day, thus
>proving...okay, shaddup.]
>
>Still mechanically inept as hell...
>
>Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
>"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"
>
> -- W.C. Fields


We tortured that Home Ec teacher...probably to pay her back for
teaching us about greasy measuring cups. I seem to remember we glued
the flour canisters to the countertop.

I would have loved to have taken shop, but it was not an option.
Still, I married well enough that I now have every power tool the
world has ever seen.

Boron