{"id":2090,"date":"2009-08-03T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:13:24","slug":"forklift-fail-or-forklift-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"Forklift fail or forklift win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/forklift_fail_45466.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Every time I pass this forklift at Honda Plus, located on Airport Road, I have to chuckle at the ingenuity of people. Not only does this counterweight serve an important purpose, it also shows that you CAN make Toyota and Nissan parts compatible&#8230;somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite &#8220;daily visit&#8221; sites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.failblog.org\" target=\"_blank\">failblog.org<\/a>. It took off from the FAIL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/meme\" target=\"_blank\">meme:<\/a> You take an image of someone doing something dumb, making a hilarious mistake, or just generally failing at something. Paste the word FAIL on it in an Impact style font. Post and share the hilarity.<\/p>\n<p>An alternate of it is WIN. While I question the means of attachment of this weight to the forklift, I have to admit it displays a certain innovation. While it would probably qualify for failblog.org, I wouldn&#8217;t put this in the &#8220;dumb&#8221; category. Thus I couldn&#8217;t decide if this was a FAIL or WIN, so I thought I&#8217;d make my own failblog.com-worthy image and let you be the judge:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/forklift_fail_45464.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Giant piece of metal strapped to a piece of heavy equipment: check. Toyota counterweight attached to Nissan forklift: check. FAIL text in proper font (Impact): check. All that&#8217;s left is to see if it&#8217;s a FAIL or a WIN. I may even decide to post it to failblog.org sometime, or you can if you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I pass this forklift at Honda Plus, located on Airport Road, I have to chuckle at the ingenuity of people. Not only does this counterweight serve an important purpose, it also shows that you CAN make Toyota and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2090\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual","category-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}