Comments on: She’s Carrying The Torch http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: nlpnt http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/#comment-1034238 nlpnt Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:48:55 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/#comment-1034238 Of course she's classy! Likely she was either a model hired for the presentation or a member of the secretarial pool chosen for the task for her looks. No matter, she might well have wound up using a welding torch for real in just a few short months. I do wonder if the torch itself is meant to be a "world's biggest" exhibition item, or for a practical purpose like ships' hulls or other very large, thick slabs of metal. Of course she’s classy! Likely she was either a model hired for the presentation or a member of the secretarial pool chosen for the task for her looks. No matter, she might well have wound up using a welding torch for real in just a few short months.

I do wonder if the torch itself is meant to be a “world’s biggest” exhibition item, or for a practical purpose like ships’ hulls or other very large, thick slabs of metal.

]]> By: Al Bear http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/#comment-1033620 Al Bear Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:00:23 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/#comment-1033620 Welding in a dress, long hair and high heels on top of a ladder? classy! Welding in a dress, long hair and high heels on top of a ladder? classy!

]]> By: Craig http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/#comment-1033109 Craig Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:39:22 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/18/shes-carrying-the-torch/#comment-1033109 I think we lost something significant in our culture when industry stopped making "the world's biggest (whatever)". Hmmm... maybe that was the beginning of the end. I think we lost something significant in our culture when industry stopped making “the world’s biggest (whatever)”. Hmmm… maybe that was the beginning of the end.

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