[Public-List] silly questions -

[Mike Lehman]

Or...

It was like the ton of IT questions I would get as an IT manager.

One of my favorites...

A call from our Executive Director early in the morning (for her that was 
10:30 a.m.) telling me to re-boot the mail server because she has lost ALL 
of Thursday's mail. She has Wednesday's mail and she has this mornings 
(Friday's) mail but no mail for Thursday, but it was there yesterday!

Funny, none of the other 35 people in the office has called about missing 
mail?

I visited her office, looked over her shoulder, told her to click on the "+" 
sign next to Thursday. "You're brilliant", she exclaimed!

I walked away shaking my head ruefully thinking...dumb bitch!






~~~_/)_/)~~ Mike Lehman ~~_/)~~~


-----Original Message----- 
From: gordon white
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 8:18 PM
To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
Subject: Re: [Public-List] silly questions -

     I get these questions when I go to a show with my race car. The
inevitable "how fast does it go?" question is not really stupid of
course, but in a practical sense, are we talking about lap speed on what
size track? Top speed on what size track? Top straightaway speed on a 15
mile course?  I tell them the car holds the international 2,000 cc
displacement (FIA) record of 156.902 mph. That (which is true) generally
satisfies them.

     Then I get questions about other cars with Ford flathead V-8
engines. Those engines have three exhaust pipes on each side (not one of
Henry's better ideas) and they ask how come it's a V-6 with four spark
plugs on each side?

     The top stupidity is someone looking at a hot-rodded Ford with
aftermarket heads or intake manifolds made by the Offenhauser Co. I've
had an auction company that should know better describe the Ford engine
as an "Offenhauser," which it is not. A true Offenhauser was a
4-cylinder twin cam engine that won the Indy 500   28 times.

  - Gordon White
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