The Designer, by Ken Lane

[tinlizzie23]

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 !"

[Seann45]

I think that is the way politicians work too

[clutch]

If people who design things had to use them and fix them we would all live in a much simpler world.

[tinlizzie23]

X2, Clutch. I have long thought that the best way for us to get well-designed cars would be to require all auto designers to perform all possible repair jobs on their products within a specified period of time. If they couldn't do that, then require them to redesign it until they can.

[nambarc]

Dat funnny....