I don’t remember when I cut out these two stories but I know I kept them because they were interesting. And in at least the first instance, we have probably seen the sign that is mentioned.
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USC’s heavy load floors elevator
You know those elevator signs that say “2,000 pounds maximum”? They speak the truth — as 10 Southern Cal football players learned.
The 10 were riding a campus dorm elevator when it shut down, stranding them between floors without air conditioning until elevator mechanics arrived — more than an hour later.
The 10: Chris Brymer (300 pounds) Grant Boetler (310) Matt McShane (285) Darrell Russell (305), Taso Papadakis (240) Brett Samperi (280), Mark Manskar (240), David Pratchard (290), Jason Grain (290), and Shawn Walters (235).
Total load: 2,775 pounds
This is also an example of the use of significant figures in an addition problem but we won’t go into what is significant or the figures at this time.
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And the second story
Quotable
Scott Walker, drag racing mechanic in studying Al Hofmann’s new Pontiac funny car, on giving a new version of “R&D” or research and development: “I’m doing some R&D. That’s rob and duplicate.”
Have a good day. 
