-=> Quoting William Elliot to Clarence Hogan <=-
 >>> 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!
 WE> How about finances?  Fate has smiled upon you with a gift of riches. 
 WE> You get to choose when you want to be a millionaire:  $900,000 now,
 WE> $990,000 next year, $999,000 the year after, $999,900 in 2001,
 WE> $999,990 in 2002, $999,999 in 2003, $999,999.90 in 2004, $999,999.99
 WE> in 2005? 
 HeeHee, nice try Will, which reminds me sadly, I "HAD" a friend
 that owed me way over a thousand dollars and refuses to pay me,
 so you ain't one of them kinds are you?  :)  But back at the
 farm, I wasn't talking about finances, but The Kingdom, for ifin
 ya' get so close that yer nose is touchin the gate and don't get
 through the gate, close won't help ya' one little bit, now will
 it?
  
 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! 
 
 WE> They would cut a two by four or six shorter by a 1/16 inch which would
 WE> just be sawdust but a deeper cut could make a 1/8 inch thick (length
 WE> of 1/8 inch) piece of a two by four. 
 HeeHee, that ain't "lumber" my friend, that is waste, fire wood,
 end pieces called scrap, remnants, etc., etc.!  :)  And if you
 think that it is useful, just try driving a nail in it and see
 what hoppens!  :)
 Just another humble servant of The Kingdom.......clarence.......
... We're lost, but we're making good time!  :'(
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