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<blockquote data-quote="OnOff" data-source="post: 401062" data-attributes="member: 16173"><p>A tea boy story................My old governor started life as an apprentice at Redpath Brown in Greenwich. As well as doing the tea he came in for all the usual ribbing. He told of being sent for "<em><strong>a bucket of steam</strong></em>" along with all the old favourites. One day he's told to go get a "<em><strong>bucket of holes</strong></em>" and he duly tells the guy asking where to go. He gets a right rollicking and is docked an hours pay. Turns out that they would punch damn great holes in steel plate. Now and then they'd get it wrong and the punched hole would need filling in. They would keep a few of the punchings, aka "holes" to be re-welded into the misplaced ones.</p><p></p><p>Jim said that on his last day as an apprentice he NAILED all the tin tea mugs to the bench as payback.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OnOff, post: 401062, member: 16173"] A tea boy story................My old governor started life as an apprentice at Redpath Brown in Greenwich. As well as doing the tea he came in for all the usual ribbing. He told of being sent for "[I][B]a bucket of steam[/B][/I]" along with all the old favourites. One day he's told to go get a "[I][B]bucket of holes[/B][/I]" and he duly tells the guy asking where to go. He gets a right rollicking and is docked an hours pay. Turns out that they would punch damn great holes in steel plate. Now and then they'd get it wrong and the punched hole would need filling in. They would keep a few of the punchings, aka "holes" to be re-welded into the misplaced ones. Jim said that on his last day as an apprentice he NAILED all the tin tea mugs to the bench as payback. [/QUOTE]
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