Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: BCota on November 04, 2010, 07:13:00 AM
*Concrete* forms, Henry :)
"cement" is just powder. Flour is to Cake as Cement is to Concrete.
just a pet peeve of mine.
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: msm on November 04, 2010, 09:26:41 AM
Ben,
Good One - -- You made me smile at my laptop ..... I, like Henry, do not always use correct term , I've been corrected on multiple occassions.
I get it now -- flour == cement == powder AND cake == concrete ..
Thanks, Mike M
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: Henry on November 04, 2010, 10:27:21 AM
Just so you know Ben, I pay very little attention to these corrections - Back when I was younger, I would have really taken it all in, but as I get older, I think it may not be gramatically correct, but I suspect most people know what I meant, so I don't let it bother me.
If I tried to write down everything perfect and corrected all the little imperfections and mis-spellings in the posts on the forum, people would become so self conscious that they probably would stop posting and I don't want that to happen. As long as we understand what everyone is trying to say, that is just fine with me.
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: HayesFXFD17 on November 04, 2010, 10:53:39 AM
Thats too funny. I am always explaining to my kids that those are not cement trucks we see on the road but rather concrete trucks.
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: mkr on November 04, 2010, 11:06:51 AM
Tomato's or Tomatoe's - I got what you meant. :-) However, thanks to Ben's analogy, I will probably remember that now
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: 7F24 on November 05, 2010, 05:44:41 AM
I thought those trucks were cement mixers.
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: MikeF9 on November 05, 2010, 08:22:37 AM
I believe you are right, Tom. My brother, Carl, worked for S.T. Griswold for years, and I remember him saying that when he started out, he always "drove a mixer".
Title: Re: Let The Cementing Begin
Post by: Mike Raburn on November 05, 2010, 09:24:26 PM