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    Default Just hit it!

    If it doesn't work just hit it is a common cry, and works.
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    I bet you the hapless engineer did exactly the same thing -- bullnosed shovel, whammo, right in the middle of the forehead, to the muffled self-proclaimed mumblings of 'you idiot' =)

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    Took them a few months to practice that 'hit' in simulations, so not exactly a spontaneous 'just' hit maneuver.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Fester View Post
    Took them a few months to practice that 'hit' in simulations, so not exactly a spontaneous 'just' hit maneuver.
    Exactly. If he'd done it spontaneously, his next utterance would have been "Do you want fries with that?"
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