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artie on edge

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Ray & Bubba

(Arkansas mechanical engineers)

were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.


 

A woman walked by and asked what they were doing.
 
'We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole,' said Bubba,

but we don't have a ladder.' 

The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts,

and laid the pole down.  Then she took a tape measure from her

pocket, took a measurement, announced, 'Eighteen feet, six inches,'

 and walked away..

Ray shook his head and laughed.. 'Ain't that just like a woman!

We ask for the height and she gives us the length!'

Bubba and Ray are currently working for the government....

... and helping to design the "stimulus package."


trojan

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What are their nicks here?

artie on edge

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What are their nicks here?

Hmmm.... it seems that sense of humours around here have been a lil strained of late... I might actually leave identifying these 2 DTSfab members til later....  8)

Offline fabr

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DAMN!!! I've been trying all morning to figure out what you said. Brain fade deluxe! nicks=nicknames ,huh?
"There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who says he is an American,
but something else also, isn't an American at all.  We have room for but one
flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is
the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a
loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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 " You have all the right in the world to believe any damn thing you'd like, but you don't have the right to demand that I agree with your fantasy"

SPEC

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It's the dam Auzzies speaking in code again...
So who you suppose they're gonna point the finger at?

Offline Reidy02

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I dunno Spec Ol son but I think you're in the clear.. ;)
VTR 1000 CUDA on the way.. What goes around comes around!!

SPEC

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That would be a first...
I was trying to remember the formula for estimating the height of trees, But for the life of me I can't remember it, and what time of day that the sun's angle is correct...My google is broken again ::)

SPEC

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Here is the forestry method...using an inclinometer...I was trying to remember the old school way they taught back in Hi-school trig. class

http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/bioed/bealsmodules/triangle.html

Offline Carlriddle

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Use you known height and measured shadow, measure tree shadow X ratio from you and you have tree hight. ???
You can keep your CHANGE, I'd like to keep my DOLLAR.

SPEC

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I know the formula...but there was a time of the day mixed in it... ;D
That's whats giving me fits...
Godamn carl that's it...a fixed rod...you know the length of...Measure the shadow...go measure the shadow of the tree and WALLA...THERE IS YOUR ANSWER... ;D

 

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