Metalworkers Gifts

Strategic Metals and Non-Strategic Metals.

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

A bridge builder using an organic blow torch.

'No, this metal stress can't be fixed with liberal doses of antidepressants.'

'He'll stop being so smug when he gets his first dent.'

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

'There was a slight accident in shop class. I welded my braces together.'

'It's called playing. Provides one with a sense of accomplishment - without actually accomplishing anything.'

'If CEO pay packets aren't a problem, why doesn't everyone get one?'

"How come politicians don't earn mimimum wage. If anybody does minimum work, it's them."

'U.S. Manufacturing'

'My client stands before you, a jury of his whittling peers ...'

Museum. Celtic smiths were the first to add iron rims to chariot wheels. They should have called them "ferrous wheels"!

"No, this metal stress can't be fixed with liberal doses of antidepressants."

'I thought you knew we play heavy metal.'

Curate talking to miners

My husband is a world expert, but unfortunately it's only on maganese bronze.

'Oh flips! I've forgot me anvil again!'

'Your mom too? Always saying, 'You never do anything constructive.''

'Of course it's not your fault, Smedley, but someone has to accept the responsibility.'

Wanting to save his parents thousands in orthodontic costs, Lyle makes braces for himself in metal shop.

'What the hell is PIG IRON?'

Flop Musicals: Singing in the Crane.

'It may be industrial strength Crazy Glue©, but substituting it for welds isn't the way to be low bidder.'

Heavy Metal Scrap Merchants.

'...but according to your DNA, you'd be much better at smelting.'

Workers rest

'I play heavy metal.'

'I don't need a hard hat, boss. I passed the plumb bob test where they dropped one on me from 50 stories up and I suffered no ill effects.'

'I wish McWit would lead a life of quiet desperation.'

Guide to Conservative Economics: Bail-outs

You wanted to see me again, boss? Yes. I realized you never gave me my Christmas bonus. What're you talking about? You're the boss. You give me a bonus, I don't give you a bonus. Exactly. The key word in employer-employee relationship is relationship. One-sided relationships never work, Rudy. I've calculated the amount you would have paid me if you hadn't been taking me for granted for 16 years. Very bad man.

Japan-Reconstruction

'Now, with this system you can do the equivalent of running a steel mill - keeping track of the quality of the ore, domestic and foreign orders, smelting processes...'