With apologies to Mel Brooks.
RULE BOOK!! I don't need no stinkin' rule book.
From my numerous posts, it is obvious that I refer to my rule books, casebooks, and officials manuals, quite often each week through out the year (and I mean calendar year); and that means even climbing up into the attic at least a couple times a month.
You use the term Bible. There is a retired civil engineering professor, John N. Cernica, Ph.D, P.E., at Youngstown State University, who has written two engineering textbooks. The one: Strenght of Materials is used quite a bit at other engineering schools. He always refers to this textbook in his classes as the Bible. About fifteen years ago, I was interviewing for a structural engineering position with a firm in Cleveland, Ohio. During the interview process, the head of the department told me that a few years earlier he had a structural engineer who had graduated from YSU and he would sometimes make a reference to the Bible. He told me that he never asked him what he meant because he thought he might be considered rude. But he asked me, if as a YSU graduate, if I knew what this other engineer meant. I just about busted a gut laughing and then told him what it meant.
MTD, Sr.
[Edited by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. on Jan 30th, 2006 at 04:33 PM]
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Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Trumbull Co. (Warren, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn.
Wood Co. (Bowling Green, Ohio) Bkb. Off. Assn.
Ohio Assn. of Basketball Officials
International Assn. of Approved Bkb. Officials
Ohio High School Athletic Association
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