Today’s post is a marked departure from my usual content, I trust you will enjoy it as much as I did. For me, it was a beautiful and funny trip down “memory lane”:
Now, know that “hamhocking” is a term coined by a friend of mine to describe our approach to fixing things around the house or when we would come up with ideas for recreational projects. We used this term as an open acknowledgement that we had little skill or ability in building or fixing anything.
It can only be used by someone like me and my friend – we have zero “handyman” abilities, no training or expertise or natural feel or intuition for carpentry, woodworking, plumbing, metalworking, electrical repair, computer hardware, auto repair, etc.
Our solution to everything essentially involved massive applications of duct tape, Krazy glue, and/or randomly affixed two-by-fours with long nails. Over the years, we would text pictures of our latest “hamhocked” fix or project we built at our houses. They are hilarious. None would last for very long, but the pride beaming from us when our fix worked for even just a little while was massive :).
Hamhock is such a versatile word, too – it can be a noun, verb, or adjective. I, for instance, am a hamhocker; I enjoy hamhocking, and I have a track record of successfully completed hamhocked projects from my home-owning and child-rearing career.
So, for your amusement, I thought it would be fun to take a trip down memory lane to revisit some of my and my friends’ most famous “hamhocking” achievements:
In no particular order, I present the pictorial and/or videographic record:
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Author: Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
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