Wun Hung Lo has a wee bit of a problem, Laddie! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 12:44:02 am
content: Greetings EEVBees:--I just bought some soft pastel cloth tape measures from Mr. Lo of HK. I wanted to tape them down to my photography board, so that the size of the objects being photographed could be easily discerned. I was photographing some CCFL bulbs using the millimeter side of the tape measure, no problem there. It is when I flipped the tape measure over to use the inches side, that I discovered the wee bit of a problem, Laddie, see picture.--Now, I think I see why the "Round Eyes" are thought to be so well endowed, and why Mr. Lo's Honorable Golden One has not been measuring up. But, "don't they use the mm side?" you ask. No, because everybody knows that for some jobs aintches 'er jest more satisfyin' than milliweewees.--They do have one good use though. "No, Honey, you are not gaining weight, the size of these pants was just marked wrong, here check the tape. Now pour me another couple aintches o that single malt, Lassie.--The great Science Fiction Author, Cordwainer Smith born Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger 1913-1966 wrote what is quite possibly the finest Sci Fi story ever written called Scanners Live In Vain. Now in 1943 Colonel Linebarger of the Top Secret Psy Ops Division, conceived and executed the idea of having thousands of extra extra large condoms made, marked medium, and then secreted where Japanese troops were sure to find them."Happy for you to desoldering, please."Wun Hung Lo 1948 -Best RegardsClear Ether

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 01:41:30 am
content: Wang (not so) Hang Low?

author: onlooker
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 03:12:29 am
content: If one ASSUMEs the unit is lightyear, the surprise will be astronomical.

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 03:24:55 am
content: I saw a techo not sure where he was from, but he had a wun hung low tape measure, measuring a room for a false floor to be fitted, problem was his tape measure had 10 inches to the foot.

author: samgab
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 03:26:15 am
content: No, silly round-eye. That tape is reading correctly. Haven't you heard of Chingtimeters? They close to inch, but not quite same unit.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 03:27:20 am
content: For years, I've been telling my g/f thatthisis nine inches.

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 05:55:45 am
content: maybe one tape measure is just going REALLY fast in relation to the other.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 08:17:08 am
content: metric inches

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 08:27:55 am
content: nope, even then its only 9 hung-low inches vs 12 imperial inches,

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2012, 08:44:56 am
content: Quote from: SgtRock on September 08, 2012, 12:44:02 amGiven the innuendo in this thread, I'm glad that was all you were photographing.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2012, 01:26:46 am
content: good i can tell the hunglo ladies i'm 9 incher.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2012, 04:55:59 am
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on September 09, 2012, 01:26:46 amYou would

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2012, 05:39:25 am
content: Can still be used, provided you both measure and cut using the same measure. Will kind of mess you around if you send out the measurements to a cutting yard though.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2012, 07:59:12 am
content: That tape will make things appear smaller not bigger so don't use it for bragging rights. Very useful if you stick another tape with correct size inches on the other side when you go fishing with your mates. Chinese side for every one else's fish turn it over for your own.