How stupid can they get??

[BobL]

. . The carpenter picks up a 1" x 8" by 10 feet piece of timber. He then procedes to rip the 1" x 8" to the desired width with a circular saw. He balances the 1" x 8" on his right knee, holding the circular saw in his right hand and uses his left hand to pull the 1" x 8" through the saw.

Reminds me of a chippie (built like a brick outhouse) I knew who would regularly rip short (200 - 300 mm long) pieces of jarrah floorboard in half as follows. Jam the guard open on the circular, flip the saw on its back and hold it in mid-air with his left hand and fire it up and pass the bit of wood through with the other hand all while holding an in-depth conversation. (err . . . . come to think of it, none of his converstations were ever what you would call in-depth)

He also cut some door and window architrave mitres this way. he claimed he could see what he was doing better and treated it all as a bit of a juggling act. Miraculously I understand he still has all his bits and pieces!

[joe greiner]

Wouldnt pass the rules here.

'Twas before you were born, Harry. Lot of safety improvements since then. Environmental, too.

Joe

[John Saxton]

If at first they don't succeed they get stupid and more stupid as time goes on

Cheers

[rick_rine]

Subject: Millionaire idiot contestant




[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Idiotic ‘Millionaire’ Contestant Makes Worst Use Of Lifelines Ever[/font]


Kathy Evans, the single dumbest contestant to ever get on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"


NEW YORK – Idaho resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family Tuesday when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance on the popular TV show, “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.”

It seems that Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question, and proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing “the absolute worst use of lifelines ever.”
After being introduced to the show’s host Meredith Vieira, Evans assured her that she was ready to play, whereupon she was posed with an extremely easy $100 question. The question was:
“Which of the following is the largest?”
A) A Peanut
B) An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) Hey, who you calling large?
Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she realized that this was a question to which she did not readily know the answer.
“Hmm, oh boy, that’s a toughie,” said Evans, as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief and disgust. “I mean, I’m sure I’ve heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be.”
Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy question, Evans still remained unsure.
“Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!” exclaimed Evans. “Darn. I think I better phone a friend.”
Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.
“Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I’m on TV!” said Evans, wasting the first seven seconds of her call. “Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun.”
Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.
“Come on Betsy, are you sure?” said Evans. “How sure are you? Puh, that can’t be it.”
To everyone’s astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend’s advice and pick ‘The Moon.’
“I just don’t know if I can trust Betsy. She’s not all that bright. So I think I’d like to ask the audience,” said Evans.
Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of answer C, ‘The Moon.’ Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.
“Wow, seems like everybody is against what I’m thinking,” said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. “But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let’s see. For which is larger, an elephant or the moon, I’m going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer.”
Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one waiting with bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact, C, 'The Moon.'