Dumb A$$ Award goes to .....

James Quackenbush · From: Pomona, New York, USA

ME !!!
I don't know how many others have won this award , but I won it today in spades when I restrung my 12 string Lamar...I had just installed a split coil pickup in it , and was exited to hear how it sounded and grabbed a new set of strings and went to town re-stringing it .....Well I got down to the final 3 heavy strings and realized that I had 4 strings left ....Dumb
a$$ me , did not look at the strings that are usually in order, but as a nice gesture, my string set was packed with 2 .011 gauge strings !!!... Now for the tough part ....My steel is keyless, and I had already snapped off the extra string at the tuner !!... A lesson to be learned !!....Look at your strings before you re-string your steel....You never know what you might find....

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

James,
When I decided to go back to school and finish my education, every time I got a simple problem wrong, I marked that page in my book with "DAM" dumb a** mistake..

I know the feeling. Bill

Steve Spitz · From: New Orleans, LA, USA

I`ve done it.

steve takacs · From: beijing, china via pittsburgh (deceased)

Sorry, James, that trick does not qualify you for the award. I plugged my 110v Nashville 400 into a 220 v outlet here recently. I have not assessed the damage yet. Can anyone beat that? steve

Gary Shepherd · From: Fox, Oklahoma, USA

I still think my drive to the last Dallas show beats the errors above. Not that going to the Dallas show was a bad thing. Nor do I think that taking off work for a few days is anything to be ashamed of. It was even cool to register for a hotel room. But the fact that I arrived a week early was a bit frustrating. Even more so was the fact that I have Newman's flyer (with the dates on the front page) in my hand most of the way down down from OK to Dallas. I was using the map on the front page.

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Gary Shepherd

Sierra Session 12

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jim milewski · From: stowe, vermont

I put a head gasket on an Audi Fox on backwards, yep, you can do it, every hole lines up perfectly, except the small hole that is the oil passage to the overhead cam, life expectancy of bearings for the cam.....end of driveway! not to mention putting a long reach sparkplug in a thin walled head on an old Honda 305, intake valve life.....first kick!

Ray Minich · From: Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra

One of Murphy's laws states that after you have removed the last bolt of the 67 bolts that fasten a cover plate to its bulkhead, you will realize that you have removed the WRONG coverplate.

Also, the $ value of an exeriment is directly related to the dollar value of the equipment destroyed in performing the experiment.

Call the guitar restringing an experiment

[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 11 May 2004 at 07:44 AM.]

Bob Lawrence · From: Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, Canada

Gary,

I got to the airport a week early for a trip many years ago. Of course everyone was was suprised but happy to see me a little early.

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Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

Dang! I lost out on this award again.

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Carter D10 9p/10k, NV400

Stephen Gambrell · From: Over there

I would give this award, posthumously, to my (otherwise intelligent) father, who knocked up my Mom back in 1954...

Jim Palenscar · From: Oceanside, Calif, USA

....along the same lines- a drag racing friend of mine rebuilt his 427 Chevy in his Nova ('66) and put 4K into the new motor (back in the early 70's that was a lot of money to put in a semi-street motor)- and, as was his custom- he fired it up and did a burnout down the street- only to realize at the end that he had forgotten to attach the oil filter- does the phrase "seize the day" apply here?

James Quackenbush · From: Pomona, New York, USA

Just a few more reasons to really like the group of folks here on the forum .... After reading some of these stories, I am SURE that I am in good company !!.... I feel a lot better now !!...

Dale Bessant · From: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

A bass player buddy,who shall remain unnamed,left to go to his gig 750 miles away and then promptly phoned me upon his arrival to work that night and asked that I please send his "axe" on the next secure means of transport to him..........Dumb A$$....

Jimmie Misenheimer · From: Bloomington, Indiana - U. S. A.

Sorry boys - you can't have the award all to yourself. Some years back during the winter, I picked up a one night job at a "Moose"'or a "V.F.W.", 54 miles North -west of here. I didn't want to do it in the first place, but I needed the money (imagine that!). I decided to take a lacquer M.S.A. that I had at the time. For some damn reason I took it all out of the case in the basement that afternoon. I was going for the third of the four latches on the case when I remembered not putting the pedal rods back in the case. If you think that I'm dumb though - and you would be right - I think the award that time should have gone to the other guys in that band. We played four hours, and they were so bad at the "music making" business, I don't think that any of them ever knew the differance - including the singer/guitar player that just KNEW that he was "Gods gift" to the local country music scene...

Shrine Hospitals
Jimmie

Eddie Malray · From: South Fulton, Tennessee, USA

I took off work one weekend to go to an antique tractor show. When I got there there was only one tractor. It was mowing the grass. WRONG WEEKEND

Reece Anderson · From: Keller Texas USA, R.I.P.

Years ago I arrived to play for an 8:00 am Hawaiian breakfast at the Dallas convention center, dressed in white pants and Hawaiian shirt in the month of January.

After a lot of parking and unloading problems, I then pulled my equipment for a considerable distance, all the while getting stares from people seeing someone so stangely dressed for that time of year in Texas.......Imagine my surprise when I learned I was exactly one month early.

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