I've had success fixing gummed up fugged up carburetors and some failures. Either way my wife is prone to leave the house if I'm working on one cause the chances of profanity and tools flying is high
I've had success fixing gummed up fugged up carburetors and some failures. Either way my wife is prone to leave the house if I'm working on one cause the chances of profanity and tools flying is high
Thankfully, I've got a shop. With the shop radio on, nobody in the house is hearing any of the swearing.
I was watching some Yankee movie last month, the young gal was dating some guy and talking about marriage. The mom said to the dollie, "Well, is he handy? Can he change a light bulb?"
I built the custom log cabin that I live in, and, trust me, custom log work is three times harder than frame, and takes three times longer, and I did all the wiring myself. Wiring a log cabin is a bitch and most licensed electricians won't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Seriously, how much Windsor Canadian do you think the Red Green Show writers drank while coming up with stuff for the handyman segment of the show?!?!??
Mine came from a no fix family. Dad a chef and grandpa a judge. So when we got married and i brought a rolled Jeep home on a flatbed she went ballistic.
Out of sight in detached garage i eventually got it road worthy.
Automotive, remodel, electronics and fine pitch jewelry and eyeglass repair....sure do miss my old lab job.....was pretty handy on gov jobs ( microscopes, soldering tools etc ).
Gun and archery projects on the kitchen island dont phase her. Still bitches about Gunkote in the oven though.
Seriously, how much Windsor Canadian do you think the Red Green Show writers drank while coming up with stuff for the handyman segment of the show?!?!??
goalie; Top of the morning to you sir, I hope that the day's breaking bright and clear for you folks out east and that all in your family are well.
Thanks for the thread and the chuckles and nods that it's caused, I very much appreciate it.
Honestly there's been a few times in my life after I've introduced coworkers to my good wife where they've suggested this very topic - that is to say I must either be extremely useful around the place or one smooth talker - since I'm not much of a physical specimen to gaze upon.....
Steve Smith - Red Green - used to have a TV show with his wife Morag called Smith & Smith and I want to say Red Green was a character that arose there and just kept morphing into a life of it's own. It was a parody of the outdoors show "The Red Fisher Show" and both Smith and John Candy used to do some really funny skits based on that. Of course if you weren't a Canuck and had never heard of Red Fisher - well it was less humorous I'm sure.
Anyways, here's an interview of Steve Smith talking about his last tour - just watch to the 45 second mark folks - I believe most on the forum will find it a bit ironic if nothing else.
Thanks once again sir and all the best to you and yours in 2021.
Well if you crave a Timmy's double double then you're indeed close to the medicine line!
For sure and certain some of the Red Green stuff might be a tad "regional" shall we say or perhaps more Canadian than some humor that translates across borders better, I'm not sure since I am one, you know?
The girls gave me one of his books one year for Christmas and it's good for a laugh as well.
Thanks again for the thread, the reply and for carrying on the manly tradition of being able to fix stuff that needs it sir!
My wife is a wrecking ball. She could bend a battleship I swear to god. I've never seen a person so talented at breaking things. I say that line to her every time I fix something she's broken. She got me a sign for my shop this year for christmas that said "We Break it, Dad fixes it" haha
I think we're married to the same woman. I swear, over half of the stuff I have to fix is from what she has broken. She's beginning to learn my mantra of "Don't force it"
There were three evil sisters from that family..I got the other one. Mine has twisted off the door key to the travel trailer so many times, that I have filed a shear line on it so you can pluck out the stub easy. Two, count 'em, glass doors to the woodstove. Three, count 'em, tips to expensive deep sea poles. Pockmarks on almost every window of the shack from her weedeater and rocks. And modifications to her Hoover that would make an Abrams tank a much sturdier piece of hardware. But wait, I carry a beater milsurp 6.5 Mannlicher for a pickup gun, the Weaver (steel tube) 2.5x has a suspicious dent on the objective bell, it suspiciously matches the height of the door sill of said pickup. She knows "nothing of this whatsoever, so help me God." It is a full time job following her around with epoxy, solder, Lincoln welder, duct tape, baling wire and basic tool kit.
LMAO.
Fuggen hilarious.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want.