Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Guess the greatest invention of all time

The internet?

Those plastic fake ice cube things that can be refrozen again and again?

Anti- retroviral drugs?

Moveable type?

Ships?

A beeper that tells you when the pillow you have turned over is recooled on the face-down side so you can (safely) turn it over again? [okay, this one is mine]


Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope!


It's the chalkline maker! Or the "chalkline," if you prefer. The thing where one stretched the chalk-coated string along a surface, then plucks the string and it leaves a perfectly straight line to cut along, hammer nails into a surface straightly, etc.


I had never, ever seen one of these until last Saturday, and I'm glad I hadn't until then, because I DOUBT I COULD HAVE HANDLED IT!


And the chalk comes in different colors! And EVERYTHING!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's not a plumbline, douche. Although you can use a CHALKLINE for a plumb bob, no carpenter does, they usually use a fucking plumb bob for that...craftsman tool owning jagoff.