i don't get it?

i don't get it?

okay. knock me down and call me sally but what the heck does someone building a structure need a hand saw for? aren't they supposed to cut the boards first and THEN climb up atop the building?

okay. knock me down and call me sally but what the heck does someone building a structure need a hand saw for? aren't they supposed to cut the boards first and THEN climb up atop the building?

XxAxX said:

yeah and that guy with the hammer thingy, what the hell was that about?

LleeLlee said:

exactly. and just exactly HOW did the guy on the ground 'drop his pants'???

i think we're all well aware that construction workers wear overalls and those just aren't so droppable

there are quite a few dodgy points to this story. i'm starting to think it might not be strictly true

Frankly I think you ladies are missing the point of the story.

XxAxX said:

I think its all a bit suspect and i dont think it happened at all and that he/she made it up.

XxAxX said:

hey X! i'm still to your house.

LleeLlee said:

i agree. this business of the third-floor guy, mr. 'i need a handsaw', running down to yell at the guy on the ground. NOT likely. it's simply too dangerous to run around an unfinished building, as we all know.

XxAxX said:

hey X! i'm still to your house.

XxAxX said:

yes, the building inspectors (which he failed to mention) would have got really angry and started shaking their clip boards at them.

LleeLlee said:

yes they would. i think the moderators should have a look at this thread, really. isn't it against the ORG rules to post false information???

XxAxX said:

yes it is, it says in the site rules, "do not post false information about builders and hand saws, also do not allude to rude things about hand saws."


this thread is in trouble i think and will be deleted.

LleeLlee said:

maybe we could edit it a bit:

Hand Signals

There was this construction worker on the third floor of this unfinished building. He needed a hand saw, even though he should already have cut the boards he was using before he ever climbed up there, but was too lazy to go down and get it himself, even though he's a big tough strong construction guy type. so he tried to call his fellow worker on the ground to get it for him, but this guy could not hear a word he said, being several floors down and probably a bit deaf from the loud job-related noises he is routinely exposed to at various construction sites around town. So he started to give a sign, or pantomime, or other charade type form of communication so the guy on the ground could understand him.

First he pointed at his eyes (meaning "I") then pointed at his knees (meaning "need"), and moved his hand back and forth describing the movement of a hand saw. He could also have used his cellphone, or perhaps the intercom if it had existed, or written a note and dropped it but instead he used the aforementioned 'hand signals'.

Finally, the guy on the ground started nodding his head like he understood and dropped his pants, after unhooking the shoulder straps of his coveralls in order to permit such activity, and started to jerk off.

The guy on the third floor got ticked-off and ran down to the ground, or perhaps rode the lift, or at least made his way carefully downward, and started yelling at this guy, "You idiot, I was trying to tell you I needed a hand saw."

The other guy replied, "I know, I was trying to tell you that I was coming."
[Edited 3/3/06 10:50am]

XxAxX said:

yes, but substitute the word jerk off for "hand manouvering that involves repeated movements which may or may not injure the wrist and any such person undertaking this activity must proceed with caution."

LleeLlee said:

Llee, i think we've saved this thread

true story. one of my aunts was next to a school bus at a stop light and she saw all of these kids throwing hand signs, which she interpreted as gang signs. she then said to her husband "i think those kids are about to fight 'cuz they keep throwing up their hand signs" and her husband goes "read the side of the bus" 'school for the deaf'