-=> Quoting William Elliot to Clarence Hogan <=-
 >>> Clarence Hogan on Universes 
 
 WE>              Error Free Thought
 WE> Results are always obtained by successive approximations.
 WE> If at first you do not succeed, try, try, try again.
 WE> No matter how well first approximations are made, some will require a
 WE> second. The best you can do is get it right the first time, but
 WE> nobody's perfect. 
 CH> HEY Will ole man, I like it, but why can't I try to be perfect!
 WE> No problem, you can get as close to perfect as you like. 
 What do you mean close...close only counts in horseshoes!
  
 CH> I always tried to teach my carpenters to measure ten times if
 CH> necessary and mark ten times if necessary, the cut the board
 CH> off on the right mark, cause they just hadn't invented board
 CH> stretchers yet!  :)
 
 WE> That's a bit much.  I hear measure twice, cut once.  Or was it measure
 WE> thrice, cut once.  Now I've see some carpenters cut a board one saw
 WE> width shorter.  That was when I was a kid and they did than with a
 WE> hand saw.  I used to collect the thick one's up to a quarter inch
 WE> thick. 
 Whatever, I just happened to like ten better!  :)  HeeHee, I've seen
 them cut a board every way possible, but seldom the right way!  :)
 And I have got plenty of room to talk, for I used to do the same thing
 when I started out!  :'(  Hand saws are things of the past, for they
 constitute work!  :)  Hummmmm, I see what you said, but I most certainly
 do not completely understand what you are talking about for I know of
 no lumber that is one quarter of an inch thick, but plywood or shingles
 or quarter inch plywood, cause 1x's are three quarters of an inch thick 
 and 2x's are one and three quarters of an inch thick and so forth right
 on up the line to 12x's or larger special cut timbers!
Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence.......
... My BEST FRIEND was/is a carpenter!  :)))))))
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