The Designer, by Ken Lane
For those of you who sometimes question the ancestry of people who design products with apparently no regard for ease of servicing said products, this poem is for you:
The Designer, by Ken Lane
The designer bent across his board,
Wonderful things in his head were stored.
And he said, as he stroked his throbbing bean,
"Now, how can I make this thing hard to machine ?"
If this piece here were only straight,
I know this thing would work first rate.
But 'twould be so easy to turn and bore,
It would never make the machinists sore.
I'll just put in a right angle there,
Now watch those guys tear out their hair !
I'll put the holes that hold the cap
Way down here where they're hard to tap.
This piece won't work, I'll bet a buck,
'Cause it can't be held in a clamp, a vise, a shoe or a chuck.
It can't be drilled and it can't be ground,
In fact the design is exceedingly sound.
He looked again and he cried, "At last,
Success is mine ! It can't even be cast !"
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2003 Ford F-350 V-10 Crew Cab 4WD Long Bed
2004 Jayco Designer Medallion 29 RLTS 5th wheel
Bill, Gayle, Teddy (Jack Russell terrier), and Honey (Beagle)
Retired at last !
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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