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Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:14pm

Manbird wrote:

fleshy no-no

signal wardrobe malfunction

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:09pm

Red_Dragon wrote:

non-mechanical malfunction

fleshy no-no

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:08pm

Red_Dragon wrote:

non-mechanical malfunction

organic breakdown

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:07pm

Red_Dragon wrote:

non-mechanical malfunction

carbon-based failure

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:06pm

BlueHeronDruid wrote:

So the transit engineer runs a red signal leaving a train station. This causes the track to be shut down for signal inspection. Big Passenger Train Company owns tracks, and is pissed by the huge tie up.

The words "human," "engineer," and "error" may not be used in status releases.

Faulty Signal Interpretation? Any of you clever snarky souls want to weigh in on phrases to use to describe the screw up? My sister (transit dispatcher) could use some laughs.

No ideas but if I had what he was smoking I would probably be more creative.

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:05pm

BlueHeronDruid wrote:

She'll love that.

What "big passenger train company" are we talking about? I thought Amtrak was the only one in the country.

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 3:00pm

Red_Dragon wrote:

non-mechanical malfunction

She'll love that.

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 2:58pm

BlueHeronDruid wrote:

So the transit engineer runs a red signal leaving a train station. This causes the track to be shut down for signal inspection. Big Passenger Train Company owns tracks, and is pissed by the huge tie up.

The words "human," "engineer," and "error" may not be used in status releases.

Faulty Signal Interpretation? Any of you clever snarky souls want to weigh in on phrases to use to describe the screw up? My sister (transit dispatcher) could use some laughs.

non-mechanical malfunction

Posted: May 22, 2013 - 2:51pm

So the transit engineer runs a red signal leaving a train station. This causes the track to be shut down for signal inspection. Big Passenger Train Company owns tracks, and is pissed by the huge tie up.

The words "human," "engineer," and "error" may not be used in status releases.

Faulty Signal Interpretation? Any of you clever snarky souls want to weigh in on phrases to use to describe the screw up? My sister (transit dispatcher) could use some laughs.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 7:20pm

Manbird wrote:

Sorry, Brohampton. If I may borrow a lyric from that old standard Stormy Monday... "I was just basting your giblets while you was out in the corn field watching the owl shuck the dog".

The unknown last verse that T-Bone Walker left out.I guess it was too personal for him to let go public.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 7:14pm

bokey wrote:

I think your reply button is gummed up from rotten bananas.Could be dryer lint though.

Sorry, Brohampton. If I may borrow a lyric from that old standard Stormy Monday... "I was just basting your giblets while you was out in the corn field watching the owl shuck the dog".

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 7:00pm

DaveInVA wrote:

Actually not very wrong in this case....
Aftershop vac'ing all the lint out had to dig some of the dirt out and scrub the underside of the floorboards with Lysol to kill the smell. It got into the flex tube for the HVAC vent for that room and had to replace that also. 8 years later the shop vac still smells like meese pee.

I've had 2 really good,hardworking dedicated Hispanic techs(one Verizon,one Comcast) out here in the last month or two.Both had absolutely no problem crawling through my spaghetti network system,doing what needed to be done with absolutely no complaints or disgust(and if you saw my network,you'd have to redefine the word "disgust")

Things like that make my brain overwork,cause I have to readjust my thinking on stuff I thought I was right about.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:59pm

bokey wrote:

I think your reply button is gummed up from rotten bananas.Could be dryer lint though.

Pie filling and spork malfunctions.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:51pm

Manbird wrote:

I know, right??!! {#Lol}

I think your reply button is gummed up from rotten bananas.Could be dryer lint though.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:47pm

bokey wrote:

I think that's a positive justification regarding illegal immigration.

OK,that was wrong. {#Frown}

I know, right??!! {#Lol}

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:40pm

bokey wrote:

I think that's a positive justification regarding illegal immigration.

OK,that was wrong. {#Frown}

Actually not very wrong in this case....
After shop vac'ing all the lint out had to dig some of the dirt out and scrub the underside of the floorboards with Lysol to kill the smell. It got into the flex tube for the HVAC vent for that room and had to replace that also. 8 years later the shop vac still smells like meese pee.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:35pm

DaveInVA wrote:

When I first moved into the house I have now the previous owners had just cut a hole in the floor and stuck their dryer hose into the crawlspace. There was a mountain of lint under the floor and mice and made a huge multi family nest in it so that room above it always smelled like meese pee. That was fun to clean up.

I think that's a positive justification regarding illegal immigration.

OK,that was wrong. {#Frown}

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:21pm

When I first moved into the house I have now the previous owners had just cut a hole in the floor and stuck their dryer hose into the crawlspace. There was a mountain of lint under the floor and mice and made a huge multi family nest in it so that room above it always smelled like meese pee. That was fun to clean up.

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:16pm

bokey wrote:

Probably keeps the air cleaner too,unless you forget to empty the bucket for a week and it molds. {#Lol}

I know, right??!! {#Lol}

Posted: May 19, 2013 - 6:13pm

DaveInVA wrote:

I used to just stick the end of a flex hose into a 5 gal bucket of water and it would catch the lint just fine. Just had to remember to put water in the bucket each week before doing laundry and make sure the duct tape was still holding so it didn't pop out.

we did that when we lived in Philly.