Funny sayings....

[mivey]

Years ago I was severly shocked, someone that should have their butt kicked violated my LOTO. My wife called my dad and told him I had been electrocuted. Needless to say it took him some time to recover.

Reminds me of a bad bike wreck in my youth. I busted my head open, blood everywhere. My cousin tears home on his bike and is screaming to my mom that I was dead.

Mom gets there and the neighbor applying pressure to my head lifts the towel back just a little and mom sees a big hole with muscle tissue and thinks it is an empty eye socket (it was on my eyebrow). She calls dad and tells him I lost an eye and to meet us at the hospital but neglected to tell him which hospital, so he had to keep calling every emergency room till he found us.

 

[iaov]

We've never lost a foundation yet!:grin:

 

[peter d]

We've never lost a foundation yet!:grin:

Or a chimney!

 

[mivey]

"at least you didn't fall all the way through"

 

[quogueelectric]

There is never enough time to do it right but there is always enough time to do it twice!!

 

[scrooge]

Service calls on a DIY house.

Service calls on a DIY house.

Homeowner was sure white was positive, black was negative.

 

[scrooge]

"You need me to cut the switch on?"
"How long will this take?"
"Do y'all know what you are doing?"
"Was it supposed to do that?"
"It was working fine before you got here."
electricians to each other: "I thought you were going to take care of that"
"I was told that met code"
"Can't you just replace the ________?"
"Why can't you just_______?"
"My friend, who does electrical work, told me________"
"I could have done that"
"No, no one has done anything since the house was built"
"This shouldn't take you very long"

electricians to each other: "I see birds sitting on powerlines all the time".

 

[mivey]

electricians to each other: "I see birds sitting on powerlines all the time".

the words "watch this" are sure to be thrown in there somewhere.:grin:

 

[quogueelectric]

Im no doctor but thats gonna hurt

 

[Ranch]

I just stumbled onto this thread, 11 pages? Watts going on!

 

[boboelectric]

Somebody once asked an old timer I was working with what we did with all of the old fluorescent tubes we took out:

"We send them to Kodak"
"Do they repair them?"
"No, they use them in their dark rooms.":wink:

Real Good!

 

[iwire]

Right now two that are popular at work are.


"Chicka-pow" which just means 'whatever'

and

"Just another day" used when being sent in circles by the office for reasons unknown to us in the field.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to figure this out.

or

We are not very smart but we can lift heavy things. Saw this one on a stone mason's company shirt--- I got me one.:grin:

 

[peter d]

"Just another day" used when being sent in circles by the office for reasons unknown to us in the field.

That sure brings back memories.....the other one related to that is "It's just a job."

 

[JohnJ0906]

That sure brings back memories.....the other one related to that is "It's just a job."

"It's not just a job... it's an adventure!"

One I've used on a few jobs recently - "Sometimes it's good to be good. Sometimes it's good to be lucky!" :wink:

 

[s.sparkomatic.r09]

?Your strong like a bull and smart like a tractor?

 

[peter d]

?Your strong like a bull and smart like a tractor?

Another variation on that one is "Strong as a bull and twice as smart."

 

[3/4 watt]

There are two lengths of wire. Two short and just right.

Electricity is not racists. It will flow on any color of wire. It's us electricians that are racists. We like to separate the different colors of wire and group them together.

 

[MagnoliaElec]

If Doctors are practicing medicine can I practice electrical work?

 

[Minuteman]

They don't call us good for nothing.