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- From: ecaxron@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
- Subject: HUMOR: Extra Notice to Bidders
- Message-ID: <23JUL199211203413@venus.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 11:20 EDT
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- I got the following from a friend of mine who does acoustical contract
- engineering in Columbus, OH. If it is copyrighted, tell me where and
- I will issue a public apology - the copy I have lists no author and I have
- never seen it before.
-
- EXTRA NOTICE TO BIDDERS
-
- (1) The work we want did is clearly showed on the attached plans
- and specifications. Our engineer, whose had plenty of college,
- spent one hell of a lot of time when he drawed up these here
- plans and specifiactions. But nobody cannot think of everything!
- Once your bid is in, that's it Brother! From then on, anything
- wanted by our engineer, or any of his friends, or anybody else
- (except the bidder) - shall be considered as showed, specified or
- implied and shall be provided by the bidder without no expense to
- nobody but himself (meaning the bidder).
-
- (2) If the work is did without no extra expense to the bidder, then
- the work will be took down and did over again until the extra
- expense to the contractor is satisfactory to our engineer.
-
- (3) Our engineer's plans is right as drawed. If something is drawed
- wrong, it shall be discovered by the bidder, corrected, and did
- right with no extra expense to us. It won't cut no ice with us
- or our engineer if you point out any mistakes our engineer has
- drawed. If you do, it will be one hell of a long time before you
- do any more for us or for him (meaning the engineer).
-
- (4) The bidder is not suppose to make fun of our engineer, his plans,
- or the kind of work were having done. If he do, it's just too
- bad for him (meaning the bidder).
-
- (5) Any bidder walking around the job with a smile on his face is
- subject to review of his bid.
-
- (6) If the bidder don't find all our engineer's mistakes before he
- bids the job, or if the bidder ain't got enough sense to know
- that our engineer's going to think up a bunch of new stuff that's
- going to have to be did before the job is completely did, then it's
- just too bad for him (meaning the bidder).
-
- (7) The bidder gotta use all good stuff on this job - none of this
- crap from Japan, France or Germany.
-
- :-) :-) :-)
-
- RG
-
- Who became an engineer because he thought "free-body diagrams" might be
- interesting.
-