0 members (),
161
guests, and
10
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 706
OP
Member
|
Anyone have a know author & date for a quote something like this?...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional....try hiring an amateur".
Dave
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,391
Moderator
|
According to this site Red Adair the Oil well fireman. http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/red_adair/ “If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Bob Badger Construction & Maintenance Electrician Massachusetts
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,803
Member
|
My uncle Ted swallowed mallets in a circus! Really? Was he a professional? No, he was an 'Ammerchewer! Alan
Wood work but can't!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 141
Member
|
Alan, did you just make that up?
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 2,876
Member
|
Alan... You're a punny guy...
Mark Heller "Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 693
Member
|
It's also on my website , and was on the older version , too. [This message has been edited by Larry Fine (edited 05-14-2006).]
Larry Fine Fine Electric Co. fineelectricco.com
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 615
Member
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 507
Member
|
the original john wayne.
do a search on him. pretty incredible man.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,934 Likes: 34
Member
|
Red Adair invented the process of putting out oil well fires. He is the guy who put those fires out in Kuwiat. It was supposed to take years, he did it in a couple months.
Greg Fretwell
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 440 Likes: 3
Member
|
As a kid I had always heard about Red Adair because I'm from Houston. My dad had a boat at the same marina that Mr. Adair had his boat. The man is a legend. One day I'm heading home after twisting wires all day. I was running about 70 down IH-10, and a red Lincoln rolls past me. I look to the left, and it was Red Adair. I sped up, and caught him running about 85. I felt like it was an honor just to be on the same freeway as he. I stayed with him, and just glanced at him from time to time. He looked over and I waved at him, and he waved back. Anyhow, that was my only Red Adair story. Go rent the movie "Hellfighters". Doc
The Watt Doctor Altura Cogen Channelview, TX
|
|
|
Tom
Shinnston, WV USA
Posts: 1,044
Joined: January 2001
|
|
|
|