Engineering Tale from a Lady Archer!

Another interesting application of panty-hose - I used one as a fan belt for the alternator for about 50 miles in the middle of the night one cold winter.

You must have been chilly once you took 'em off

You laugh monkey boy!*

I worked high steel construction in Denver in the winter BEFORE microfiber superwhizbang longjohns - and you never seen funny like watching a 300lb construction worker buying Leggs support extra, extra large - but we all wore them - drilling platforms, steel construction, about every outdoor job I worked in the '70s involved panty hose under jeans under heavy coveralls.

Before I became smarter - I thought you worked *hard* to earn more - duh.

*Dr. Lazarro - Buckaroo Banzai

Laughing aside, many British Armed Forces members 40 years ago would use ladies Pantyhose to keep warm in Arctic conditions. The MOD simply did not supply everyone with the proper equipment (They don't even do that today according to many sources!!!).

The first time it was suggested as a good idea, I thought they were having me on!!! And planning to have a laugh at my expense, I froze. All the veterans (very "normal" guys.....) were not a bit abashed to show they knew their onions!! Before we went north the next time, I shamefacedly stole into a shop and bought some.....Talk about embarassed.....

It turns out that Pantyhose is an excellent leg warmer under thick trousers, but what my girlfriend of the day would have thought had she been there, I shudder to think!!!

Yeah, nothing new there - a lot of guys we sent to Korea in summer gear would have killed for panty hose!

And I was on the phone with my kid this weekend - recently graduated from Armor school and off shopping before he deploys.

The hot toy (for tanks at least) seems to be the Edmund Scientific wireless weather station. You stick the sensor out on the hull, reciever inside near the gunner. Apparently accuracy is MUCH improved with better atmospheric data.

P.S. If anyone has suggestions for him from recently returned, he is bound to be headed for the desert - he is open.

Long long ago in a distant universe I too have worn them when playing s Goalie in the middle of winter (well that's what I told Mrs Cat anyway....I'm not sure she believed I needed a suspender belt too)
Del

Were they something like this?

Would that I looked that good - might have made for *life choices* differently made!

and logging boots sort of ruined the effect.

Those are not panty hose.. those are stockings and garters. If you catch your bunkmate wearing those.... or worse yet, catch yourself wearing those.. it is for a different type of warmth.

"it's astounding, time is fleeting madness takes it tole

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Let's do the time warp again!

LOL!!

Oh don't start me off on rescuing maidens fanasies ..._{help help I've been tied up....}

Del

Del:

I saw your tagline, and thought to myself "Even harder when you realize it didn't take Quantum Mechanics to develop flush toilets, but it DID take flush toilets to develop Quantum Mechanics".

Micah

P.S. This wouldn't perchance be Mary, Lady Archer?