Manufacturing Specialist Gifts

"Where's the business end of this thing?"

Fission Chips. No, no! We manufacture components for nuclear reactors.

Frank's Vaults. I used to run a textile mill in New Delhi, but I quit to manufacture bank vaults … I figured better safe than sari.

Lean manufacture

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is serious. We have now fallen behind Japan in the manufacture of American flags."

In the Guru District

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

"DeepSeek" "Stargate"

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

Another Turning Point in the Industrial Revolution. Ford Motor Co. On second thought, let's put the cars on the conveyor belt.

US and the EU

"Jimmy, I want you to meet our new safety officer."

"Remember Mr. Cockbundle is not just a 'customer', he is an important source of valuable and readily marketable data."

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

'My new cellphone has a 'self-help' program...'

"Has anyone else noticed that the efficiency experts seem a little robotic?"

"So, Mr Canary, I see you have experience as a mine safety specialist..."

"We only got up to three 'whys' and a 'what the hell'."

"Yep, first the gold run out, then the microchip manufacturing went overseas."

'...And you're always complaining about the government's international trade agreements'

Information Tightrope.

125% tariff in escalating trade war.... ...Mitch realizes that everything he ordered is made in China

The Design Artiste

'You've done a good job for the company, Roger, but we just need someone who's a little less...analog.'

'Here it is - the world's largest miniaturization plant.'

Mo's USA Bar: Tips/Tariffs

"Bob put a chair with wheels on the table and climbed up to change a light bulb. Then the chair rolled away, Bob fell and... well, I guess we need a new industrial safety specialist."

"We don't see ourselves as either a David or a Goliath. We're content to just be the company that manufactures the sling shots."

The strong Canadian dollar is bad for the Canadian exporting manufacturers.

Dan tells me you're an architect. That is so cool! Thanks! Cloud architect, actually.

Maybe I should subscribe to the newspaper again.

'It won't take bitcoins.'

HM Customs and Excise - 'One of the few things you can see from space is the great wall of Chinese imports.'

"This is my last shift, I've been replaced by some bitch called Alexa."