Welsh-cajun-whiting folks was just too long a verb.

Plus, have you seen anything written in Welsh? Appalling lack of vowels.

In one of the sex discrimination cases my old firm handled, one of the women suing our client went on record at a deposition saying that one of her supervisors was unlikeable because he was "always trying to jew people down".

She then went on to repeat the phrase and define what she meant by it.

You could almost hear her attorney whimper.

So, 10 foot-pounds means that if you have a wrench that's a foot long then you'd apply 10 pounds of force at the end of the wrench, right?

See, I could understand someone not understand gyp being offensive. In fact, I bet most people would even spell it gip. I'm not even sure gypsies to the general populace means anything other than tambourines, skirts with coins, move around a lot.

Jew as a verb though? I don't buy. Don't even get me started on the different kinds of rigging to be done.

I'd have loved to sit in on that jury voir dire.

Joo? Gew? Djue?

tommy, it is a measure of work. A foot pound is the amount of energy requred to move a one lb object one foot. For torque, it is one lb on a one foot lever, so yeah. Multiply lever length by the force. My brain is failing. I actually had to google to kick start it.

I think my water is coming back.

Either that or my toilet is about to explode. And that would be GROSS.

So my next question is, can I approximate force in the range of 10-15 ft-lbs? Or should I buy a torque wrench? I figure I can just pull on the wrench with force equivelent to the weight of a bag of cat litter....

Depends on what you want to breakfix. Me? I'd go for the wrench. My physics education bears little resemblance to reality. Which is how I squashed my unsquashable structure (good thing I'm not an engineer) and how 180lbs of me jumping on the tire iron can't loosen a lug nut.