Posted on 12/14/2017 3:30:13 PM PST by mairdie
At first glance, the compass point cushions seen in this photo seem entirely inoffensive.
But look closer, and you'll notice a glaring mistake; the designer has gotten his south and east muddled up.
And the fact they made it to the shop floor suggests the quality control department at the homeware store responsible leaves a lot to be desired.
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IV is sacrilegious, since waaaaayyyy back when clock makers have used IIII.
Lol the car parts...just had a control arm put on our kids VW Golf, only one side of the bushings was welded. To its credit it made it about two hundred miles before the bushings tire out. Glad it gave out in a parking lot and not on the highway!
I’m sure it was utterly destroyed. LOL! Shards everywhere!
It’s almost as if architects never use the toilet.
Well, so is IIII with a stroke across it for "5"...............
I think my 1950’s Bavarian Cuckoo Clock has IIII where 4 should be.
Clocks traditionally used IIII instead of IV because of where the 4 is on the dial. I have a kitchen clock that was made in the 1870s—not in China—and it has IIII for 4.
I bought a new radiator for my 65 Willys jeep and it leaked within a couple of days.
At least it never left the carport. The vendor stood by the warranty. The replacement works well.
I heard it’s because IV was Jupitor’s abbreviation so IIII was used instead.
That pillow was designed for extremely high lattitude polar regions.
Kitten to toilet paper: “One day, I will be big, and you and I will do battle.”
The pillows got through design/qc because someone remembered the phrase “North, South, East, and West”. Clockwise that is how the pillow reads. Though obviously not correct I think that phrase was the origin of it.
IIII was used on clock faces for centuries for symmetry.
Looks more like a handicapped room at a motel.
I don’t know if it still exists but in Baltimore there was a sign/ad for Bertha’s Seafood Restaurant in Fells Point:
“Eat Bertha’s Mussels!”
Uh, the “S” is in a smaller type face than the “N, W, or E” are? Other than that, I can see nothing wrong if you live in an alternate reality where there is an East pole and the sun rises in the South?
lol....Good one.
In 1972 I was managing a gun shop in Sacramento California where we got in a set of Winchester 1866 commemoratives. The set were these gold plated model 94 rifle and carbine in .30-30 with fancy walnut in a supposedly "limited edition." But Winchester didn’t really grasp the concept of limited and made 100,000 in the limited editions of their early commemorative guns.
One of the other failings of the Winchester commemoratives was they cut corners on the basic gunsmithing instead of making them higher quality, because they figured they’re more likely display pieces. They put effort into finish, but scrimped elsewhere on these commemoratives, especially on internal fit and finish.
These both had the 24k gold plated receivers and nice blued barrels, triggers, hammers, and levers, and the barrels had the Winchester stamping with PROOF MARKS showing they’d been test fired at the factory.
Only one glaringly huge problem: neither the rifle nor the carbine had ever been chambered to take a .30-30 round! They could not have ever been test fired! There was literally NO CHAMBER on either gun! The bore was straight rifled .30 from breech end to muzzle. Somehow they neglected that step at the factory. . . Oops.
One gun I could see how that might happen. . . But TWO, one a 24" octagon rifle barrel, the other a 20" round carbine barrel, which you’d think would have come off different lines, and BOTH missed being chambered winding up in the same matching serial number set? Something was fishy at Winchester, but they weren’t talking.
We sold the set as a factory error for five times what the MSRP for working guns would sell for, even though Winchester was demanding we send them back to be chambered. Winchester didn’t realize their return demand letter was an admission they were genuine factory errors.
That’s why you never dispose of the old parts until you have a successful test drive. Working on a boat while out on the water seems foolish to me in the first place.
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