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Offline bijou

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I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« on: May 26, 2008, 04:16:22 PM »
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petgoat  (1000+ posts)       Sun May-18-08 12:18 PM
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I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
 Advertisements [?]Edited on Sun May-18-08 12:27 PM by petgoat
Almost 18 months ago I shared these sketches, which didn't
go over very well here.

I'm not an engineer. I've worked in construction and read
lots of books on building and I operate a lot in the failure
mode through taking on the repair of hopelessly broken stuff
other people consider garbage, and when I'm building stuff
for my own use I deliberately underbuild it to try to generate
instructive failures. My first project was as a
five-year-old--a chair that provided an interesting (and
instant) shear failure when I sat on it.

I have reason to believe that one of these days you're going to
see some diagrams from more authoritative sources that look
something like these.
 





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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts)       Sun May-18-08 01:39 PM
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1. If anyone here can decipher Wtf Petgoat is babbling about here....
 would you let me know?
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petgoat  (1000+ posts)       Sun May-18-08 03:27 PM
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6. You wouldn't know why there are two rakes.
 Edited on Sun May-18-08 04:01 PM by petgoat
Clearly you can't see that for the top of the tower to fall through the
lower part of the tower would not be like a piledriver pounding a pile
but like trying to pound a rake with another rake.

Actually, since the lower rake is more robust than the pounding rake,
this updated version is more apt.


 
...SNIP...

link

Apparently this proves MIHOP or LIHOP, meh who needs chicken wire anyway?
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2008, 04:36:45 PM »
Petgoat: The DUmmie who wants the world to know he's a DUmmie but is too lazy to get out of the basement and build a chicken-wire replica.
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2008, 05:13:44 PM »
The guys an engineer and can't afford either a CAD program or Adobe Photoshop?
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2008, 05:17:31 PM »
Quote from: bijou on May 26, 2008, 04:16:22 PM
Apparently this proves MIHOP or LIHOP, meh who needs chicken wire anyway?

It was too expensive.  Probably couldn't afford the kerosene, anyway.  :rotf:
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2008, 05:23:43 PM »
Quote from: Chris on May 26, 2008, 05:17:31 PM
Quote from: bijou on May 26, 2008, 04:16:22 PM
Apparently this proves MIHOP or LIHOP, meh who needs chicken wire anyway?

It was too expensive.  Probably couldn't afford the kerosene, anyway.  :rotf:
That horrible * economy.  :(
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2008, 05:24:27 PM »
OMG.... :lmao:

This is from the site that is constantly proclaiming themselves to be intellectually superior to all of mankind right?  :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2008, 05:27:38 PM »
Kinda puts this thread in a whole new light...

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I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise. We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve. WE are not the norm. The Republicans understand that the average American is not very bright. They cater and pander to the masses. The Democratic Party tries to appeal to the population about "issues" that these people just don't understand.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=495887

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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2008, 05:27:55 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on May 26, 2008, 05:13:44 PM
The guys an engineer and can't afford either a CAD program or Adobe Photoshop?

He should just do what every other DUmmie does and pirate himself a copy, then claim he is stickin' it to Da man.
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2008, 05:47:44 PM »
With such l33t paintbrush skills as this DUmmie clearly possesses he has no need for Autocad or Correldraw, let alone chicken wire and kero.
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2008, 05:48:41 PM »
Quote from: Chris on May 26, 2008, 05:27:38 PM
Kinda puts this thread in a whole new light...

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janekat (1000+ posts)      Wed Oct-08-03 11:35 AM

I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise. We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve. WE are not the norm. The Republicans understand that the average American is not very bright. They cater and pander to the masses. The Democratic Party tries to appeal to the population about "issues" that these people just don't understand.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=495887



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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2008, 06:17:40 PM »
Quote from: bijou on May 26, 2008, 04:16:22 PM
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petgoat  (1000+ posts)       Sun May-18-08 12:18 PM
Original message
I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
 Advertisements [?]Edited on Sun May-18-08 12:27 PM by petgoat
Almost 18 months ago I shared these sketches, which didn't
go over very well here.

I'm not an engineer. I've worked in construction and read
lots of books on building and I operate a lot in the failure
mode through taking on the repair of hopelessly broken stuff
other people consider garbage, and when I'm building stuff
for my own use I deliberately underbuild it to try to generate
instructive failures. My first project was as a
five-year-old--a chair that provided an interesting (and
instant) shear failure when I sat on it.

I have reason to believe that one of these days you're going to
see some diagrams from more authoritative sources that look
something like these.
 





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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts)       Sun May-18-08 01:39 PM
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1. If anyone here can decipher Wtf Petgoat is babbling about here....
 would you let me know?
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petgoat  (1000+ posts)       Sun May-18-08 03:27 PM
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6. You wouldn't know why there are two rakes.
 Edited on Sun May-18-08 04:01 PM by petgoat
Clearly you can't see that for the top of the tower to fall through the
lower part of the tower would not be like a piledriver pounding a pile
but like trying to pound a rake with another rake.

Actually, since the lower rake is more robust than the pounding rake,
this updated version is more apt.


 
...SNIP...

link

Apparently this proves MIHOP or LIHOP, meh who needs chicken wire anyway?

Well damn that explains everything.  How could I have missed that all this time!  It was right in front of my face!

Bush really did do 9/11 and Underground panther is actually a male groundhog in a female human body!

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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2008, 06:48:21 PM »
I will toot my own horn now:


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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2008, 06:58:23 PM »
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2008, 07:00:08 PM »
I wonder if freedumb just whipped that up?  :evillaugh:
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2008, 07:06:16 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on May 26, 2008, 07:00:08 PM
I wonder if freedumb just whipped that up?  :evillaugh:

Pardon me whilst I whip this out... (/Blazing Saddles)
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2008, 07:22:03 PM »
People equipped only with kazoos should avoid tooting their horns, it annoys the grown-ups.
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2008, 07:53:40 PM »
did petgoat take the brown acid?

what the hell is that supposed to be? I mean really?

And did anyone notice the misspelling of "sheer". He spelled it "shear".
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2008, 08:10:37 PM »
What in God's name was that all about?

And then the one DUmmie wanking on how they are the top 1% of the human race in the brains department...I mean really- WTF?

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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2008, 09:15:38 PM »
I believe it's a troofer post, and the moron thinks the towers should have failed in the middle by spreading out horizontally at the point of impact, instead of collapsing more-or-less vertically with relatively little horizontal dispersion above ground level.  It's the work of a world-class buffoon, and no more an engineer than TiT was a SEAL.

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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2008, 09:27:04 PM »
One day soon these will replace the Rorschach inkblot test. 
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2008, 09:48:05 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on May 26, 2008, 09:27:04 PM
One day soon these will replace the Rorschach inkblot test. 

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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2008, 12:07:43 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on May 26, 2008, 07:22:03 PM
People equipped only with kazoos should avoid tooting their horns, it annoys the grown-ups.

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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2008, 01:55:34 AM »
H5 for freedumb's amazingly lifelike sketch.  :lmao:
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2008, 02:34:49 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on May 26, 2008, 07:53:40 PM
did petgoat take the brown acid?

what the hell is that supposed to be? I mean really?

And did anyone notice the misspelling of "sheer". He spelled it "shear".

No, Dixie, I think that might actually have been correct in this context, which I finally figured out. "Shear" as in physics, a stress force.

(It only took dumb ol' me about eight posts to figure out that those grossly rudimentary drawings are supposed to illustrate why 9/11 couldn't have happened the way it did without a set-up implosion.)

What they actually illustrate is that petgoat is not only a crappy draftsman and non-genius, he's probably mentally ill into the bargain.
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Re: I'm Going to Toot My Own Horn Here Just a Bit
« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2008, 09:32:52 AM »
well kudos to you for figuring it out! LOL. I honestly read "shear failure" and thought, "utter failure", not a mechanical description. Then again, I'm not a civil engineer tee hee. I doubt the goat is either but hey...
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