>>> Clarence Hogan on Board 
 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. 
 
 WE> No problem, you can get as close to perfect as you like. 
 CH> What do you mean close...close only counts in horseshoes!
How about finances?  Fate has smiled upon you with a gift of riches.  You get 
to choose when you want to be a millionaire:  $900,000 now, $990,000 next 
year, $999,000 the year after, $999,900 in 2001, $999,990 in 2002, $999,999 
in 2003, $999,999.90 in 2004, $999,999.99 in 2005?
 
 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. 
 CH> I know of no lumber that is one quarter of an inch thick, but plywood
 CH> or shingles or quarter inch plywood, cause 1x's are three quarters of
 CH> an inch thick  and 2x's are one and three quarters of an inch thick
 CH> and so forth right on up the line to 12x's or larger special cut
 CH> timbers! 
They would cut a two by four or six shorter by a 1/16 inch which would just 
be sawdust but a deeper cut could make a 1/8 inch thick (length of 1/8 inch) 
piece of a two by four.
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