# A true Straight Dope moment.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 28, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863 "2001-03-28T18:27:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/1 "2001-03-28T18:27:32Z")
This I _had_ to share, even though Wally was before my time…
I was driving in to work today, late. Long story. Anyway… I passed these highway department vehicles on the shoulder, doing cleanup and cutting brush and the like. Traffic was slow (hey, this is California, when is it now?) and I stopped right by one of them. Being bored, I looked over at them idly, expecting to see the name Asplundt or John Deere or something…
…but the name of the manufacturer of the chipper/shredder thingy? **Putzmeister**. Right hand to the heavens, swear to God, Putzmeister. I had myself a good laugh, sitting in traffic on 101 North.
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/2 "2001-03-28T18:54:03Z")
A couple of links that are appropriate: the [Putzmeister](http://www.putzmeister.com) home page and the ironic [PutzMeister World of Concrete](http://www.putzmeister.com/woc/), I guess that’s where all the trolls get their ideas. 😉
Keith
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### Author:  [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/3 "2001-03-28T19:43:38Z")
Putzmeister
–A division of Troll Inc.
That’s great **Ras**. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/4 "2001-03-28T19:51:38Z")
Putzmeister
–A division of Troll Inc.
That’s great **Ras**. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/5 "2001-03-28T21:31:40Z")
**Odie** that is toooo funny!
And **Simetra** , it was funny once. Twice is pushing it. Well, ok, since it’s you, it’s ok. 😉
Oh, and when I said:
> [@](#):
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> (hey, this is California, when is it now?)
It’s now _now_. I meant not.
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### Author:  [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/6 "2001-03-28T21:44:16Z")
_ **The Curse of the Putz.** _
Apparently by mentioning the word putz in the OP of the thread, you’ve cursed every odd poster to make a putz-like mistake.
😃
The real stupid thing is, I didn’t even notice that I did that.
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/7 "2001-03-28T22:33:48Z")
I dunno, Sim, there’s a lot of odd posters 'round these parts… 😉
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-true-straight-dope-moment/59863/8 "2001-03-28T23:08:38Z")
That’s right up there with the time I was in the thrift store and saw a record by a group called “GRY”! (I think it was the guy’s name, but that didn’t keep me from cracking up over it.)