Doug,
Well at least you will be a clean and well preserved lab specimen!!
A thousand hard steps to rise, but one single/fatal step to fall.
Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 10:20 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC RE: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
Wow, an interesting turn of events. In the space of an hour I went from mild mannered easy going engineer to the feared LAPD. Must have been all the isopropanol I am breathing today.
Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Decker, Scott UTAS < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Boy, talk about creativity in the group... Richard, do you write for
> anyone? You might want to look into news stand paperbacks. You know,
> the ones that have the dog eared corners and dirty finger marks on the
> edge of the pages. The books just under the Fabio novels, (not the
> ones about butter either.) and just above the stack of yesterday's
> papers, those papers that were on the bottom of the stack and got wet
> from that wet and drizzly snowstorm you mentioned. Yeah, that's quite
> the story, and after reading it, I too hope I'm never on Doug's bad
> list or whatever list it is, I don't know if I could stand myself
> knowing that others on the forum would know my status with Doug.
> Please everyone, can't we all just get along and live together in harmony, (and no, not E-Harmony either)???
>
> Well, (he says with a heavy sigh) Everyone try to have a nice weekend,
> maybe by next week, this will all blow over like a tumble weed that
> blows across the Arizona desert and the Dust In The Wind, (hum, that
> could be a
> song?) and ride on to a new week and new day. (You sure don't find
> used days anymore, do ya. Proof we are a throwaway society!)...
>
> :-)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stadem, Richard D
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 6:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [External] [TN] NTC RE: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
>
> Ooooooew, boy, I hope I never get on your bad list, Doug! Forever
> banished in disrepute.
> And here Dave has always been such a good, loyal, and supportive
> friend to you, always eager to help you out, yet you threw him under
> the FEQAB bus as it left town in a wet and drizzly snowstorm in the
> night whilst leaving behind a paper trail of used Kleenex, coffee cups
> with lipstick stains and little plastic swizzler sticks, empty
> doughnut boxes and Geritol bottles, and lots of cough drop wrappers....
> And while poor Dave lies on the shoulder of the road, bruised,
> battered and shivering, a cold hard rain has come.
> Have you no shame?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 7:50 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
>
> Nope, I ain't buyin' that. Mis-direction would have used some OTHER
> element. You are still disqualified.
>
>
> Doug Pauls
> Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:39 AM, David Hillman <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Sorry Doug but the inclusion of the actual answer in the list of
> > clues was not a mistake, it was the highest level of mis-direction
> > and
> deception!
> >
> > At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Douglas Pauls <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> I have convened a special meeting of the FEQAB and they have
> >> disqualified my esteemed colleague's question. When you put the
> >> answer in the question, it's not really a question, now is it? I
> >> am going to take this one and frame it. In 4 years of the exercise
> >> this
> is the first time he goofed.
> >> Well, other than the weekly goofs of disqualifying me.
> >>
> >>
> >> Doug Pauls
> >> Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:01 AM, David Hillman <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
> >>>
> >>> The Question:
> >>> This element does not oxidize in air. The name for this element is
> >>> Spanish in origin. This element exists in high abundance on the
> >>> Moon. The most common use of platinum is as a catalyst in chemical
> >>> reactions. Large ore deposits of this element are found in the
> >>> Merensky Reef. Which element is being described?
> >>>
> >>> The Answer:
> >>> The element is Platinum (Pt). Platinum derives its name from the
> >>> Spanish word "platina" meaning "little silver". The largest
> >>> commercial use of platinum is for catalytic converters in vehicles.
> >>> The early Spanish explorers found quite a bit of platinum in South
> >>> America but it was often simply thrown away, and there was an
> >>> official decree forbidding the adulteration of gold with platinum
> >>> impurities. The Merensky Reef is a layer of igneous rock in the
> >>> Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa and contains most of the
> >>> world's known reserves of platinum group metals.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The winner of the quiz is Leland Woodall and he will get the
> >>> services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. The discussion on
> >>> Moon cheese was quite entertaining! Its clear that the TechNet
> >>> community is very creative and imaginative.
> >>>
> >>> There won't be a Element Quiz next week as I will be
> >>> "investigating the impact of lead-free metal alloys on the flight
> >>> dynamics of North American waterfowl with an emphasis on tungsten"
> >>> and will need the boys assistance.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
> >>>
> >>> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> >>> Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital Week 1 Ron Feyereisen,
> >>> SigmaTron Intl.
> >>> Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> >>> Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
> >>> Week 3 John Burke
> >>> Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 5 No Winner - no
> >>> correct responses!
> >>> Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> >>> Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> >>> Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
> >>> Week 8 Leland Woodall
> >>> Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
> >>> Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> >>> Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
> >>> Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
> >>> Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
> >>> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and
> >>> Assembly Week 13 No Quiz, Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld
> >>> Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week
> >>> 16 John Maxwell Week 17 Leland Woodall Week 18 Leland Woodall Week
> >>> 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 20 Robert Kondner Week 21 Tom
> >>> Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
> >>> Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC Week 23 Juliano
> >>> Ribeiro, DATACOM Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
> >>> Week
> >>> 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC
> >>> International Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose Week 27 Bhanu Sood,
> >>> NASA Week 28 Leland Woodall Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 30
> >>> Leland Woodall Week 31 Leland Woodall Week 32 Steve Gregory Week
> >>> 33 Leland Woodall Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp Week 35
> >>> Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
> >>> Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem Week 38 Leland Woodall Week 38 Tom
> >>> Carroll
> >>>
> >>> Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and
> >>> Assembly
> >>> - This is really great! The guys can help me to clear out a flat
> >>> (thousands of books :-( ) and, of course, if they have enough of
> >>> the dust of about
> >>> 50
> >>> years, have fun with our cats again......(no dust,only cat's fur
> >>> in red &
> >>> black)
> >>>
> >>> Week 40 Leland Woodall
> >>> - assisted with ????
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
> >>>
> >>> Dave Hillman
> >>> Rockwell Collins
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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