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break bulk cargo

Wherein lee buys an industrial box of poprocks.

Awesome!

In related bulk purchasing news, recall how I purchased 25 pound bulk box of UHMW-PE ? The description said ’25 pounds – each piece a minimum size of 3″ x 3″ ‘.

A box arrived about a foot by a foot by two inches thick, and it was heavy.

My plastic!

I opened it up…and confronted a single block 12″ x 12″ x 2″, weighing 25#. I cracked up, and kept laughing for a full minute. It was the perfect degenerate case of ’25 pounds – each piece a minimum size of 3″ x 3″ ‘. Because each and every piece in the box exceeded the 3″x3″ size, and the aggregate of all of the pieces weighed 25#. Ha! I’m chuckling again right now thinking about it. It was like the canonical mail-order scam of the copper-plated bas-relief bust of Lincoln, actual height 0.5″…which is, of course, a penny.

Except, in my case, I have something cool: 25# of UHMW-PE!

I probably haven’t laughed that hard since I made fun of Jason Waterman’s Starbucks beverage, and deeply questioned his masculinity, all in a single sentence.

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3 Responses to “break bulk cargo”

  1. HTRN Says:
    July 31st, 2007 at 10:22 am

    Lemme get this straight, 25 POUNDS is now considered a “bulk order”?

  2. tjic Says:
    July 31st, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    [quote comment="70438"]Lemme get this straight, 25 POUNDS is now considered a “bulk order”?[/quote]
    well, by me…

  3. HTRN Says:
    July 31st, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    You know what that means, don’t you?

    You’re not using nearly enough of it. :)