# A person stole our cement mixer. WHY? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945 "2008-06-23T17:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/21 "2008-06-23T20:39:07Z")
Or he needed shoes for a “friend.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/22 "2008-06-23T20:39:27Z")
And although I appreciate their cracked sense of humor, certain punsters are so set in their ways there’s just no curing them. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/23 "2008-06-23T20:44:26Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Do you have any concrete evidence for that? [/QUOTE] Well, nothing set in stone. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/24 "2008-06-23T20:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] And although I appreciate their cracked sense of humor, certain punsters are so set in their ways there’s just no curing them. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and replying to them just _reinforces_ their behavior. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/25 "2008-06-23T20:49:58Z")
The pun pain… I feel mortary wounded. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/26 "2008-06-23T21:35:34Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] It was a full size cement mixer, and the police are looking for it and “Bear.” [/QUOTE] I just knew he couldn’t stop at pic-a-nic baskets. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/27 "2008-06-23T21:43:28Z")
I’m trying to figure a way to sneak ‘rebar’ into a sentence, and failing. I think my pun license has been revoked. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/28 "2008-06-23T21:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] I’m trying to figure a way to sneak ‘rebar’ into a sentence, and failing. I think my pun license has been revoked. [/QUOTE] Steel yourself, you’re just temporarily stucco’ed; try mixing things up mentally for a bit and pour over something else for a few minutes. Some problems just need some air. Then, return to the original site in its aggregate and see if inspiration strikes. Relax; this happens to all of us. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/29 "2008-06-23T22:01:27Z")
Yer really troweling on the puns here, aintcha. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/30 "2008-06-23T22:27:42Z")
[QUOTE=Noelq] Yer really troweling on the puns here, aintcha. [/QUOTE] Yeah, this sort of scenario floats up now and then. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/31 "2008-06-23T22:30:13Z")
…or sinks like a stone. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/32 "2008-06-23T22:45:02Z")
Isn’t the correct term “concrete mixer” since the device in question mixes concrete? (cement being one of the components – water and aggregate being others). Civil Engineers I know get mad when “cement” is misused to me “concrete” Brian ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/33 "2008-06-23T23:02:12Z")
He’ll sh^t bricks when the cops catch up to him. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/34 "2008-06-23T23:04:22Z")
Cement mixer is traditional. Tradition trumps. (Why did you do it that way? Well, we looked in the files, and that’s the way we did it last time.) ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/35 "2008-06-23T23:27:19Z")
True to form, Bear is obviously an agregate theif… FML ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/36 "2008-06-23T23:36:22Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] I’m trying to figure a way to sneak ‘rebar’ into a sentence, and failing. I think my pun license has been revoked. [/QUOTE] He’ll be behind rebars in no time? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/37 "2008-06-24T11:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] Civil Engineers I know get mad … [/QUOTE] Then they’re misnamed. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/38 "2008-06-24T12:01:02Z")
Damn, there would be nothing cooler than a high speed chase of a cement mixer. I can just see the helicopters following a cement mixer barreling down the highway, its mixer rotating cheerfully, just crashing through everything in its way. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/39 "2008-06-24T12:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Then they’re misnamed. [/QUOTE] uncivil engineers? One of my favorite novels has a great line in it about a particular group of people not being mad scientsts just irritated engineers [they had created a device that they thought would close a wormhole permanenntly and block access to and from a particular panet forever] ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945/40 "2008-06-24T13:20:34Z")
Un civil engineers hmm, I suspect they are just prestressed . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-person-stole-our-cement-mixer-why/453945.md?page=3)