I’ve got to admit that “some assembly required” is no longer a problem. The assembly instructions are pretty good now days and you even get spare nuts & bolts etc. The bed frame we recently ordered not only came with spare parts and an Allen Key, it also came with an Allen Key ratchet. Had to rate it 10/10.
In my experience, “some assembly required” might as well mean “it might have been.” In a large number of attempts to build things from instructions written by Chinese manufacturers, I had an amazingly high percentage of a lack of success where I was left mumbling to myself “well, it might have been.”
Got a computer desk last month. The assembly instructions were poor quality photos with no attempt at written instructions. Slowly got it done having to redo several steps. Love the desk but really! Hire someone to do your tech writing.
In that poem, Bret Harte noticed a conflict between how the judge imagined life married to Maude, and how Maude imagined life married to the judge. He wrote a poem “Mrs. Judge Jenkins” in which the two are married, and regret it. That poem ends thus:
If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, “It might have been,”More sad are these we daily see:“It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”
B UTTONS about 4 years ago
That must be the problem with state government … one of the houses is an assembly.
Aussie Down Under about 4 years ago
I’ve got to admit that “some assembly required” is no longer a problem. The assembly instructions are pretty good now days and you even get spare nuts & bolts etc. The bed frame we recently ordered not only came with spare parts and an Allen Key, it also came with an Allen Key ratchet. Had to rate it 10/10.
macky87 about 4 years ago
In my experience, “some assembly required” might as well mean “it might have been.” In a large number of attempts to build things from instructions written by Chinese manufacturers, I had an amazingly high percentage of a lack of success where I was left mumbling to myself “well, it might have been.”
Geophyzz about 4 years ago
Now they’re some sad things known to man; but ain’t too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when there’s no one around.
InTraining about 4 years ago
Well, it’s a turn around where they are using “Cheap offshore labor” (you) to do the final assembly work for them…!
Rogers George Premium Member about 4 years ago
I used to make that quote “Of all sad words of mice or men…”
lbhorton about 4 years ago
Got a computer desk last month. The assembly instructions were poor quality photos with no attempt at written instructions. Slowly got it done having to redo several steps. Love the desk but really! Hire someone to do your tech writing.
carlosrivers about 4 years ago
I can knock that down to one word; ikea
KEA about 4 years ago
always seemed to me the “some” was superfluous
mattro65 about 4 years ago
I never have too much trouble assembling things but I do find the instructions amusing sometimes. They can really fracture the English language.
j.l.farmer about 4 years ago
“it might have been” if i had all the parts needed to complete the assembly.
paranormal about 4 years ago
Also, batteries not included…
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
Also, ‘We don’t need no stinking witnesses’.
Jogger2 about 4 years ago
In that poem, Bret Harte noticed a conflict between how the judge imagined life married to Maude, and how Maude imagined life married to the judge. He wrote a poem “Mrs. Judge Jenkins” in which the two are married, and regret it. That poem ends thus:
If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, “It might have been,”More sad are these we daily see:“It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”
amaryllis2 Premium Member about 4 years ago
(If he were alive now.)