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Re: Memory installation in a 170?

Scott,
I was TOTALLY joking. I saw the "out". Larry was writing as he speaks, and for most of us, our vernacular sentence structure is not necessarily grammatically correct. When I read it, I laughed and thought the following: 

1) Wearing a 5.5mm socket wrench is hilarious.
2) Wearing one out (in public) is funny.
3) Wearing a socket wrench out means he was over-using his tools.
I could not resist number 1, so I pointed it out. Larry can take as good as he gets, so I was expecting him to send me the name of his jeweler. 

Trevor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Klement" 
Subject: Re: Memory installation in a 170?





How do you ~wear~ a 5.5mm socket wrench? What, pray tell, is 5.5 mm on
your body? Your pinkie, perhaps?


I'm not sure if you're joking or if you didn't understand what Larry
meant...  The term "wore out" means that the continued use of the item
caused the parts to degrade to the point where it needed to be replaced.

For example, if you do a lot of driving, you might "wear out" the tires on
your car, because little-by-little the rubber wears down, and has to be
replaced.  As a verb, you might say "I wore out the tires on my car".

Larry is saying that he "wore out" the tool he got from IBM, so he
bought two new ones.

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