| Project by GnarlyErik | posted 01-15-2013 10:24 PM | 3868 views | 19 times favorited | 20 comments |  |
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A little sea story about this ‘project’:
Years ago an old bachelor named Jimmy lived aboard his boat in the boat harbor and I became I friends with him. One day Jimmy asked me to make a sign to keep people off his boat. Sometimes a drunk would stumble aboard his boat in the middle of the night and wake him up. I made a sign to hang in his rigging, but around the same time there was a bit on TV about a pizza company CEO who had a big rubber ink stamp he used to make a statement on things he sent back through the mail. It was an image of a big letter “U” with a large screw driven through both legs of the U at an angle, i.e., “Screw You”.
As a joke I made Jimmy the ‘real thing’ – a big wooden “U” with a galvanized screw run through it and gave it to him. He loved it and promptly hung it in his rigging, showing it off to passers by. It was so well liked apparently, that a week or so later when Jimmy was away someone went aboard his boat and stole it and broke his heart! I made Jimmy another of course and he placed that one inside the boat cabin window where he could lock it away.
After telling this story recently, I remembered my brother’s birthday coming up next month. He runs his own company and might just find a use for for something like this! This one is made to be innocent looking with a picture on one side. It is made so it may sit on his desk and be turned around to ‘make the statement’.
Just a simple wooden “U” with an 8” x 3/8” galvanized lag screw run through the legs. There is a base screwed to the bottom of the picture frame at an angle, and the ‘Screw U” hangs by a key chain on the reverse side.
-- "Never let your dogma be run over by your karma!"
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JoeinGa
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#1 posted 01-15-2013 10:32 PM
Neat idea. My brother’s birthday is in November…
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HillbillyShooter
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#2 posted 01-15-2013 10:40 PM
Great one! And, may I observe that although the craftsmanship is superb, the strong underlying sentiment shines through. ;-)
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#3 posted 01-15-2013 10:44 PM
charming ,I’m sure :))
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#4 posted 01-15-2013 11:04 PM
Very nice Eric.
At the risk of being politically incorrect, I think it might be a fitting emblem for a training program for prison guards.
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#5 posted 01-15-2013 11:08 PM
I like it ! Also a little more subtle than the one a guy I used to work with had embossed on his hard hat. That one included the letter “F”.
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DIYaholic
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#6 posted 01-15-2013 11:09 PM
LUV IT!!!
This is going to be plagiarised by many peolpe, over and over and over…...........
I will certainly be one of the imitators!!!
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#7 posted 01-15-2013 11:52 PM
That’s neat.
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#8 posted 01-16-2013 12:39 AM
That is the university that I attended for a very long time, so please, have a little respect.
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TopamaxSurvivor
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#9 posted 01-16-2013 06:47 AM
Funny project. Bet your Bro will love it.
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Dennisgrosen
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#10 posted 01-16-2013 08:51 AM
:-)
thanks for sharing Erik
Dennis
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#11 posted 01-16-2013 12:05 PM
I so want one of those. Great project.
CtL
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#12 posted 01-16-2013 09:36 PM
It could be a great logo for Screw University, wherever that is!
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GnarlyErik
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#13 posted 01-16-2013 11:10 PM
Yes Stefang – note Shipwright’s and Exelectrician’s comments above. I particularly liked the idea of a university for prison guards (AKA ‘screws’). The college notion had never occurred to me until I read these comments.
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#14 posted 01-17-2013 04:18 AM
Looks like a great gift for my next company Christmas
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#15 posted 01-17-2013 02:22 PM
That’s a good one. :)
helluvawreck aka Charles
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