Re: The Colorado BS thread
Sorry, dude, that's funny!
If there is such a thing, funniest burn I saw was in high school. There was this kid who couldn't get anything right. The corners of his first sheet metal project were off by 1/4-inch. His foundry project didn't pour very well...OK, at all. His welds, with any process, were not welds.
One day I saw him finish his second sheet metal project, a candle holder. The layout was good because the corners matched. All the lines were straight and true. All the proportions were correct. I was happy for the kid. After watching him screw up, get fair grades, and suffer discouragement with every project... I was PROUD of this kid!
As I stood there, lost in my thoughts, watching him burn some decorative squiggles in the sheet metal:
He shut off the torch.
He grabbed his project by the base.
He ran it over to the teacher, beaming with pride.
The teacher stuck out his hand, grabbed the top with his thumb and index finger:
A curl of thick, white smoke came up from the teacher's fingers.
The project flew across the shop.
The kid turned bright red.
The teacher cupped his hands at his waist and muttered things I could not hear.
The kid scurried away to retrieve his project.
The next day, at the start of the second year class, the teacher told us he got burned by a kid in the first year class. He told us he almost punched the kid. I told him how it looked through my eyes; he actually started laughing about the whole thing. I hope the kid got an A... Finally.
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