From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Aug 26 19:34:24 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371FA44155 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:34:23 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QIY4Z04572 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:34:04 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEAB29417D; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (cats-mx2.ucsc.edu [128.114.129.35]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3657C29417B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Tycho (dhcp-63-177.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.63.177]) by cats.ucsc.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id g7QIULg21491 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:30:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jim Whitehead" To: "FoRK" Subject: How unlucky can you get? Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal X-Ucsc-Cats-Mailscanner: Found to be clean Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:28:11 -0700 X-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=7.0 tests=KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL, USER_AGENT_OUTLOOK version=2.40-cvs X-Spam-Level: So, last night around 5:30AM I'm woken up by a loud *craaack*, followed by one of the most dreaded sounds a homeowner ever hears: vast quantities of water spilling onto the floor. The water is coming from the bathroom, the toilet specifically. Turns out the water cistern on the top of the toilet had cracked down the side, and was spilling out all the water. 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 past -- just normal use. I've *never* heard of this happening to anyone I know. The guts, yeah, they fail all the time. But the storage bowl -- never. Geesh. - Jim http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork