62 lines
2.8 KiB
Plaintext
62 lines
2.8 KiB
Plaintext
From fork-admin@xent.com Tue Aug 27 00:33:01 2002
|
|
Return-Path: <fork-admin@xent.com>
|
|
Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com
|
|
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
|
|
by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8118E44155
|
|
for <jm@localhost>; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:32:59 -0400 (EDT)
|
|
Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1]
|
|
by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)
|
|
for jm@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:32:59 +0100 (IST)
|
|
Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org
|
|
(8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QNUfZ14577 for <jm@jmason.org>;
|
|
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:30:42 +0100
|
|
Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix)
|
|
with ESMTP id A2EF62940B0; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
|
|
Delivered-To: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
|
|
Received: from barrera.org (cpe-65-172-233-109.sanbrunocable.com
|
|
[65.172.233.109]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FD32940AE for
|
|
<FoRK@xent.com>; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:27:24 -0700 (PDT)
|
|
Received: from (127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1]) by MailEnable Inbound Mail Agent
|
|
with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:28:55 -08:00
|
|
Message-Id: <3D6AB9B7.8020407@barrera.org>
|
|
From: "Joseph S. Barrera III" <joe@barrera.org>
|
|
Organization: Wings over the World
|
|
User-Agent: Mutt 5.00.2919.6900 DM (Nigerian Scammer Special Edition)
|
|
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja
|
|
MIME-Version: 1.0
|
|
To: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
|
|
Cc: FoRK <FoRK@xent.com>, juliet@barrera.org
|
|
Subject: Re: How unlucky can you get?
|
|
References: <AMEPKEBLDJJCCDEJHAMIOECLFFAA.ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
|
|
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
|
|
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
|
|
Sender: fork-admin@xent.com
|
|
Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com
|
|
X-Beenthere: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
|
|
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11
|
|
Precedence: bulk
|
|
List-Help: <mailto:fork-request@xent.com?subject=help>
|
|
List-Post: <mailto:fork@spamassassin.taint.org>
|
|
List-Subscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>, <mailto:fork-request@xent.com?subject=subscribe>
|
|
List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork.xent.com>
|
|
List-Unsubscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>,
|
|
<mailto:fork-request@xent.com?subject=unsubscribe>
|
|
List-Archive: <http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/>
|
|
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:28:55 -0700
|
|
|
|
Jim Whitehead wrote:
|
|
> So, after shutting off the water and mopping up, I was left to ponder what
|
|
> are the odds of having mechanical failure of a large rectangular porcelain
|
|
> bowl, in the absence of any visible stressors (like someone striking it with
|
|
> a sledgehammer)? We hadn't done anything unusual to the toilet in the recent
|
|
|
|
All it takes is an overtorqued nut (e.g. at the water intake entrance)
|
|
to stress the porcelain, and you've got a time bomb waiting to go off.
|
|
Of course, if you're lucky, you'll overtorque it enough that the tank
|
|
will break right away, while you still have the water intake shut off.
|
|
|
|
- Joe
|
|
|
|
|
|
|