On 4/4/2012 11:44 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> First guess is a steel pipe.
>> Whoa! Only saved from the need to award a prize by a subtle miss. The image
>> is of the top of a chain link fence around
>> the overlook above the Point Reyes Lighthouse. Fortunately, for me, that
>> fence and the ones protecting the 300 steps
>> down to the lighthouse are made of aluminum! Rust is a real problem there.
> I must register a protest here. I used "steel" in the generic sense as
> in "metal". Steel could have been steel, iron, stainless, galvanized
> and aluminum. :) Or plastic...
>
> I was right, though, that it was a steel pipe used for a railing or fence.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ...
"Steel" as a generic for metal? Not buying it.
Especially not in this venue of engineers, scientists, pedants and all around
nit pickers. ;-)
Protest Denied Moose
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