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Date: 11/02/09

A New National Pastime?

Not relevant to anything at all, really, I just remembered the most surreal headline I think I've ever seen. It was in the staff magazine of our local steelworks (in the days when we had one. A steelworks, I mean). Over a piece about the upgrading of part of the steel-making process, the headline read:

CONVERSION OF 'D' ARC FURNACE TO ECCENTRIC BOTTOM TAPPING

Perhaps we should make 'eccentric bottom tapping' an event in the next Olympics.