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Blog Guy, whatever happened to those fantasy photos you used to set up at the request of your readers?
I still do them, but they have to be really challenging or they just don’t interest me. Make it good.
Well, like many of your readers I have trouble telling the cartoon world apart from the real world.
Boy, I’ve been there!
I saw a Daffy Duck cartoon years ago where Daffy played a road worker with a jackhammer. He had to balance himself against a rock wall and hold the jackhammer with his feet, see, and then…
I know that one! Then Daffy’s hand slips and he and the jackhammer go boing-boing-boing-boing down the road and the other workers have to scramble out of the way, and then they bounce into a fine china shop, and stuff is getting smashed….
Yes! I can’t believe you’ve seen it. Can you recreate it in real life?
Can I? I’m ordering the jackhammer and a shop full of expensive china right now! This is why I LOVE my job!
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A laborer balances himself on a rock wall as he uses his feet to guide a jackhammer at a quarry in the town of Kaduwela, east of Colombo, February 26, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
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I knew that the Acme Pogo stick catalog seemed shaky…
If this worker were a surgeon, would he be a foot doctor?
That’s cool.
I’ve heard of this guy. He used to work as a cook in a restaurant that bragged its food was “untouched by human hands.” Poor man, this is his third career. He was booted out of the military because he had flat hands.
I wanna know what’s below the picture that tells him this is the right way to use a jackhammer.
Whilst I’m willing to admit that we’ve all cable tied the ‘on’ lever of a pnuematic drill to the handle so that we can use it one handed in awkward places, I really don’t see how balancing on it with your feet is going to make the job any easier. Unless you need your arms to catch a rope when what you’re jackhammering collapses under you.
Also, Bob, you need to have words with Mr Caption Writing Man – that REALLY isn’t a sledgehammer…
You’re absolutely right, CrowGirl. I pointed that out to our photo department yesterday, then forgot to change it myself. I just did.
man o man…
Spider-man had to pick up a weekend job since superheroing just wasn’t paying the bills.
You know something…. whatever you say…. I dont want to be there when whatever he is drilling into, falls… And Unca… have to tase you for educating us… just have to do it!!
Surely a sledge hammer is the one that the uses to sledge down the hill when he slips.
The reason you use a jackhammer this way is becuase it spits up hot, busted-up bits of stone at high velocity, so when you stand next to it in your bare feet and legs, they can get cut-up pretty badly, and you can easily lose a toe, or even a foot.
And becuase you’re an idiot.