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YSaC, Vol. 1796: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie

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scaffaling – $450




3. Sets. With. Planks. ..2. Sets. AR.e. 5. By. 5. Tall … 1. Set. Is. 49. By. 6. Tall….3. 10. Ft. Planks. Aluminum. 4. Wheels. Coupllers. . Has. Cross. Pieces. …Calls. Please. ###–####

It’s the holiday season! And I HATE holiday music! But I still can’t help hearing this one to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” (start at seven for best effect)

“3 Sets with planks,
2 Sets a-are,
FIVE BY FIVE TALL!
O-one set is four
Nine by six
Taaaaal.
And the couplers has cross pieces.”

In the holiday spirit yet?

(Thanks for the post, Peter!)

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15 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 1796: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie”

  1. MissMommyNiceNice Avatar
    MissMommyNiceNice

    In honor of Beesmas, another entry into the Best of Shatner Reads Craigslist. It’s a Beesmas miracle! Praise the Llamanun, may bees be upon you.

    1. Dave and his tap-dancing ferrets Avatar
      Dave and his tap-dancing ferrets

      Shatner Reads Craigslist is the current production at my indie theater.

  2. CapnMac Avatar
    CapnMac

    Pardon me, stewardess, I speak Construction.

    The standard size for pipe staging (what we grownups call wleded pipe modular scaffolding) is five feet by five feet. Rather than use of rickety wooden boards of dubious quality, the regulatory agencies have made an aluminum “plank” the standard. And these come in the exact lengths to fit the staging when assembled. So, it’s important to keep them sorted by size, especially if a person has some non-typical staging parts.

    Our putative vendor is attempted to sell three lots of staging parts.
    Two of tjpse lots are for some quantity of five by five staging sections (we are left to presume four each).

    The third lot is for “49” by 6 foot staging. The use of “49” in this context is a construction contraction of 4′-9″ which is communicated verbally as “four-nine” in the trades. However Spark’ does manage to throw a wrinkle here. The 4′-9″ x 6 ‘ are almost invariably connects by either a 4′-9″ x 3′ or a 4′-9″ x 4’ pair.

    We are being offered some quantity of aluminum planks to go with these assemblies.

    The 49×60 set has probably been used on the wheels as a mobile bit of staging for doing interior work, and thus those parts are available. No mention of leveling feet, though, which is aan important bit for standing the staging up.

    “Sparky doan wan no help, sparky doan git no help”

    1. nojazzhere Avatar
      nojazzhere

      Hey Sparky….can I just buy the bicycle in the first picture? As a former circus acrobat, I could just stand on that to clean my gutters, and not mess with setting up scaffaling. Then I can cycle on down to the neighborhood watering hole…..see?…life can be made simple……

    2. Demon Duck of Doom Avatar
      Demon Duck of Doom

      I am untutored in Constructionese, Cap’n, but you had me at “tjpse lots”.
      *hic* I’ll have another.

  3. Yancy Avatar
    Yancy

    A friend once asked if I believed in the Oxford comma. After I said yes I do, he said he believed in the Walken comma. Ever since, I hear things in Christopher Walken’s voice rather than Shatner’s.

  4. Yancy Avatar
    Yancy

    The title of this post has a spelling error and a punctuation error.

    scaff-failing

    TIFIFY

  5. jay Avatar
    jay

    You appear to have misspelled “coupllers”

  6. HamCan Avatar
    HamCan


    Oh Scaff-a-ling, Oh Scaff-a-ling!
    Thy planks are so unstable
    Oh Scaff-a-ling, Oh Scaff-a-ling,
    Thy metal is still rusting

    Not only unsafe when summer’s here,
    But also dangerous after 12 cold beers.
    Oh Scaff-a-ling, Oh Scaff-a-ling,
    Thy planks are so unstable!

  7. Ralph Avatar
    Ralph

    Sparky appears to be having a period. Or several. Couplling during periods may result in cross pieces.

  8. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    To be fair, the poster did say Please, so at least has some semblance of manners…that’s nice!

    But onto the meat of things, I think I’ve figured something else out about authors intent. Not wanting to show favoritism among words, each gets it’s own capital letter and period, thus no word feels left out or diminished among it’s peers. We must let words be equal, despite number of letters or sentence position. Periods and Capitals for all!

    And to all a good night…

    1. Demon Duck of Doom Avatar
      Demon Duck of Doom

      Sadly, it appears Sparky may suffer from punctate capitalitis. That can be very painful, but not as itchy as scaffaling.

  9. Meg Avatar
    Meg

    3. This.Is Perfect..2. For. AR.e. 5. Tradition… 1. Every. year. 49. We. 6. Gather….3. Together. And. Go. Scaffaling…4. In. Neighborhood. .Figgy. Pudding . Indeed!. …GetsMeSome. Please. ###–####

  10. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    You had me at Boston Charlie. 8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46u50qJY0GM

  11. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Hammy, you and I had an extra day in the box, and I appreciate how fetching you are. Punchity Punch Punch! Ow.

    Good Morning, Carol O’Corners!

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