My advice to young people: carpentry, electrical, and plumbing. Learn them. Those are things anyone can do, but few can do well. Those who do it well can make a ton of money and will never be out of work. There’s a dearth of competent tradespeople in my area, so getting a competent plumber to the house is a chore. The good ones are terribly busy, and the others make enough money so that they don’t really need your piddly little job, so they may show up or not. After much trial and error over the years, I’ve found a partnership of plumbers who know what they are doing, show up when they say, and who charge me less than they could. Together, that’s a rare and wonderful thing.

Peter tried to do his own plumbing once, and just about killed himself.

In the game Down the Drain, you must draw a path for the drop of water to find its way through. Fascinating when you get to the higher levels! (via Dump Trumpet)

Make this guy sing in the shower with Shower Song. He’s not bad! (via b3ta)

The Shower Test. I always wash my hair first.

He had all the right parts, he just lost the assembly instructions.

SONS

A proud father was showing a fellow worker a picture of his five grown sons. His friend asked what they did for a living. The father said the older two are doctors and the youngest two are lawyers. The friend asked about the middle son and the father said, "Oh, he's a plumber. Someone had to pay for all the others educations."

He’s the Plumber

Josephine the plumber.

Famous plumbers.

And now a word from our sponsor, Plumber’s Butt Caulk.

In the game Plumber’s Butt the object is to give a long-tail T-shirt to each plumber. In a hurry!

MENS ROOM

(via Bits and Pieces)
In the men's room at work, the boss placed a sign directly above the sink. It had a single word on it, "THINK!"
The next day, when he went to the men's room, he looked at the sign and right below it, immediately above the soap dispenser, someone  had carefully lettered another sign which read, "THOAP!"

THE PROFESSOR

(via Joanne Jacobs)
A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before.

The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave him the bill a minute later, he was shocked.

“This is one-third of my monthly salary!” he yelled.

Well, all the same he paid it and then the plumber said to him, “I understand your position as a professor. Why don’t you come to our company and apply for a plumber position? You will earn three times as much as a professor. But remember, when you apply, tell them that you only got through seventh grade. They don’t like educated people.”

So it happened. The professor got a job as a plumber and his life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly.

One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to go to evening classes to complete the eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher, to check students’ knowledge, asked for a formula for the area of a circle. The person asked was the professor. He
jumped to the board, and then he realized that he had forgotten the formula. He started to reason it, and he filled the white board with integrals, differentials, and other advanced formulas to derive the result he needed. He got “minus pi times r squared.”

He didn’t like the minus, so he started all over again. He got the minus again. No matter how many times he tried, he always got a minus. He was frustrated. He gave the class a frightened look and saw all the plumbers whisper: “Switch the limits of the integral!!”

Thought for today: The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -John W. Gardner

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