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kf4zht

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A few more we use

When you don't get what someone is explaining: I'm loster that last years easter egg

A more recent one: Hold on while I do some presidental engineering
 

caper

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It's like talking to a stump.

I had one coworker tell the boss he was like a turnip one time,then he said and to make it worse your like a fall turnip you can't even grow anymore.I had to leave the room I was laughing so hard,almost got fired with the guy.
 
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94legaleagle

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Before starting a project - I'm going to go do something, even if it ain't right

skinned knuckles - "wrenchbite" or wrench bit me

poor welding job - looks like Big Bird flew over

True story - a gung-ho, getter done w/o 'effing around friend of mine went to work for the railroad - he is assigned to work w/ another RR employ who attempts to teach my friend the railroad worker's "slower" pace of work life - so, over lunch one day, friend's co-worker says

"When Dave came to work for the railroad, we had to tie and anvil to his as and hit him over the head w/ a hammer to get him to slow down. . . . He wore the anvil out, and the hammer broke!"
 

torqueman2002

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I just heard one from a guy at work, after sharing some of the ones posted here.

"More excited than a 2 p#$ker billy goat!"

And when someone is being a nit picker:

"He's pickin' fly s*&t from the pepper."
 
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lilcuda

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My 2 favorites from my machinist days are:

"Never enough time to do it right, always enough time to do it over." - This one was especially useful due to the shortcuts our boss would make us try, only to have them fail.

"Skilled labor isn't cheap, cheap labor isn't skilled." - coined by a guy who worked in our shop for a while, in response to customers that wanted top quality work for next to nothing.
 
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