Standardization
Partner was helping me change plugs in the Ogwife’s truck when he remarked ‘hey, I stumbled across the original meaning of “Din” (the industrial standards used in industry for many components and processed) “It means” he says, ” DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung” He didn’t even attempt the Bavarian accent. I said, “makes sense, who wants to say THAT all the time? it’s just like JIS, or “Japan Industrial Standard”. Partner replied “Yes, and besides, nobody can pronounce “fucking doghouse smileyface” (referring of course to the Kanji Characters)
It still makes me giggle uncontrollably when I think of it.
In other news, I found a twoney in my pocket this morning, the change from a fiver I took down to the Macs in owen sound while in Canada. It reminded me of this:
Wife’s family is sitting around talking about the funeral and drinking. These folks can drink, I’ma tellya. -28 outside, and an OMG-35 windchill. Feet of snow. I get sent on an errand.
So I’m standing in the Mac’s (the Canadian 7-11) and the woman gives me my change, I take the looney, the tooney, and the bag of ICE I’VE JUST PURCHASED, look at the counter girl, and think. “This is altogether the most ludicrous errand I have ever been on.”
Y’all ought to do some Googlifyin’ and find out the why behind DIN. Es ist verry interreshtink.
Gerry N.
Wait? You just bought a bag of ice?
At the convenience, store, yes. In the coldest winter on record in that town.
So you bought a bag of chipped ice, made from potable water that you can use in drinks back home. Doesn’t sound so silly anymore. Saves you the trouble of chipping your own ice from the bucket of city water you’d leave out overnight, if you had the foresight.
It would be ludicrous if said bags were in a freezer *plugged into an outlet and running* that you had to hump them out of. Like locks on doors at “open 24 hours” places, I see a George Carlin joke in there somewhere.
Water water everywhere, eh? Although I may have you beat: I once bought 50′ of clothesline, a shotgun cleaning kit and a tube of mascara in the same trip to the store. If that doesn’t put me on a list somewhere, someone’s not doing their job.
A cranky old mechanic told me more years ago than I care to count that the English transliteration of “DIN” was “Das Ist Normal”…made as much sense as anything else to my young impressionable mind…