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From: sjs@u1100s.UUCP (Stan Switzer)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Surveyor Lingo
Message-ID: <198@u1100s.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 09:10:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 09:10:41 1985
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In article <1660@bmcg.UUCP> yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (Larry J. Huntley) writes:
> >	I'd always heard:		He's about a half bubble off plumb.
> >
> And for those of us who were once employed as surveyors ("Civil Engineers")
> it's: "She's about half a bubble off of dead center."
> 
> Larry J. Huntley         Burroughs -(B)- Corporation
>        

As a former surveyor, I must take exception.  The phrase is "DFC."  We
had other charming phrases as well.  We had no walkie-talkies either,
so we found it extremely difficult to communicate when there was a crowd
around.

"Just a blonde *#$% hair to the left.  No, No, the other left."

Stan Switzer
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