RE: Re: Moderator (Paul Bowers) is your time to

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 12:03:00 EDT

>On the other hand, one man's "easy" question is another man's intractible
>dilemma.

Well put. I think the bigest problem with the so-called 'stupid' questions is the assumption that the person hasn't bothered to get a little background in the subject before posting. All the flaming about horse's ass engineers and CAD monkey designers and fitter apes is a little distressing, even after hearing it all from time to time over 35 years in the biz. Anyone making blanket statements like that is sticking a poker right up his own kilt because we all depend on each other. If I tell a welder to stop asking dumb questions and get on with his work one day, there's a good chance I'll get 'I dunno' for an answer when I need help with a fab problem the next. You never know when a returned favor will pull your butt out of the fire.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=_1Rl_Lpftk0AUaFFjnLwrCgtVule6LpO3xhmZ2KGroZ3TSwzW6vB4-FLcNz4hswHUo8b7x09EnW3">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Fri Sep 28 12:03:00 2001