Posted on 07/18/2010 8:44:32 PM PDT by ransomnote
As amazing as it may seem, there’s considerable evidence that Joe Caldert, a plumber from St. Francis, Kan., submitted the design which was the basis for BP’s at least temporarily successful effort to stop the flow of oil.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/did-joe-the-plumber-fix-the-oil-spill-98707484.html#ixzz0u61DZuwS
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Even if it was true BP would never be allowed to give him credit
It’s not THAT Joe.
My bumper sticker on my plumbing truck .... I’m not Joe the Plumber but I know crap when I see it
Aww, c’mon, that’s just racism speaking! Everyone knows it was Obama who submitted the design. How come you normal mortals cannot accept that Obama is better than God? /sarc
Ah...I see...it’s ‘a’ plumber named Joe, not ‘Joe The Plumber’.
If it was a plumbing problem than that explains why it took so long to fix it. It probably required ten trips to Home Depot.
Plumbers have the best bumper stickers
Barry and his blue ribbon panel of ivy league professors are still planning out their Robert’s Rules of Orders and lunch menus for their multi-million dollar series of meetings while Joe the Plumber from Kansas fixes the problem.
Barry’s solution to everything is to appoint a blue ribbon panel of Harvard professors. He’s a brand whore.
Or was it the plumber from New York?
As if those engineers don’t have the same fundamental understanding of how to handle the leak that a plumber would.
Would anyone actually call a plumber to fix an overflowing toilet under 6000 psi? I think we would all consider that situation to be a little above his pay grade.
The 6000psi toilet pressure made me lol. Thanks.
I think there are tools and devices fine tuned for different applications and now and then, it cuts through the development cycle to borrow an approach from another trade. I listened to a man describe how he developed a pump fed hot glue gun from some pretty unrelated things that came together in his mind, drawing on low tech that exists in a few different places. His idea worked - he was summoned to an automobile factory to show them how he did it.They bought his idea and installed it with one minor modification. I think it’s not an ‘easy to complex’ gradient of knowledge but it’s re-purposing techniques that are thought to be industry specific.
Ah...I see...it’s ‘a’ plumber named Joe, not ‘Joe The Plumber’.
I understand that plumber name Joe has a cousin mane Mario.
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