#20
Carpenter: The second-floor lintels between the lally columns, should we rabbet them?
Mr. B: The second-floor lallies?
C: Second-floor lintels between the lallies.
MB: Oh, the lintels between the lallies.
C: Yeah, from the blueprints you can’t tell.
You want they should be rabbeted?
MB: No, no, I guess not.
C: Okay, you’re the doctor. Hey, fellas! If you got any of them
rabbeted lintels set, rip them up!
[Loud crashing and ripping sounds...]
Mr. B: It sounded less expensive to say no.
- What’s the matter? Is something wrong?
- How do you like that?
-I broke my bucket.
-Two times this week, I broke my bucket.
- What did you do, hit a boulder?
- That’s no boulder. That’s a ledge.
- What does that mean?
- Means we gotta blast.
- Blast?
- Blast, with dynamite.
- What do you mean?
- What do you mean, “what do you mean”?
-Mr. Zucca explained, he has to use
-dynamite to blast to get rid of the rock.
-That’s no rock. That’s a ledge.
-What Mr. Blandings means is,
-what precisely is a ledge?
-A ledge is like a big stone,
-only it’s bigger.
- Like a boulder.
- No, like a ledge.
- Like a ledge.
- But you don’t have to worry.
-It only costs $ a cubic yard,
-plus the dynamite and the fuse.
-How far will you have to blast?
-Hard to tell. Might be a little baby ledge,
-might run the whole top of the mountain.
-At $ a yard,
-do you realize what that means?
-It means we gotta blast.