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I pass out these at job meetings.

ARCHITECTURAL SPECIFICATIONS



PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS: The Plans and Specifications are without error

and agree in every detail. Any apparent contradiction between them claimed

by the Contractor shall be taken as evidence of bad faith on the part of the

Contractor. In case of disagreement as to the Architect's intent due to

alleged disagreement between the Plans and Specifications, the Project shall

be built both ways and the additional cost shall be born by the Contractor.



CHANGED CONDITIONS: Subsurface conditions differing from those shown on the

Drawings, and any change in the nature of the Work, shall be viewed as bad

management on the part of the Contractor and appropriate penalties shall be

assessed.



INSPECTION: Armed inspectors will be present at all times to enforce the

wishes of the Architect.



VISITORS: All visitors shall be given access to the Project and shall be

allowed to participate fully in supervision of the Contractor's forces and

operation of his equipment.



ACTS OF GOD: Acts of the Architect shall be considered Acts of God and

shall not be questioned.



CATASTROPHES: Any and all catastrophes which befall the Contractor during

execution of the Work shall be satisfactory to the Architect.



ABSENTEEISM: Should the Architect or any of his staff be absent from the

job site for an extended period, the Contractor shall send flowers and

inspirational messages at the rate shown on the bid schedule. At such times

as the Architect or any of his staff returns to the job site, a ceremony

appropriate to the occasion shall be arranged by the Contractor.



PAYMENT: Payment for completed work will be made at the end of the calendar

month; the calendar month to be as selected by the Architect. It is agreed

that the Architect's personal checks shall be cashed by the Contractor in a

gracious spirit.



ARBITRATION: Disputes which cannot be settled to the satisfaction of the

Architect and his staff shall be submitted to a board of arbitration

consisting of the Architect and his staff.



OBJECTIONS: Objections by the Contractor, herein aforesaid, are

inadmissible by the terms of this Contract and shall be considered ipso

facto, quid pro quo, and hic haec hoc. The Contractor shall have no lawyers

or lawyer-like people in his employ and shall hire none until the Statute of

Limitations can be applied to the Project herein described.



DEFINITION OF TERMS: Terms shall be as defined by the Architect to suit the

Architect. Exhibition by the Contractor of dictionaries refuting the

Architect shall be considered flagrant violations of proper deportment.


SUPPLEMENTAL CONSTRUCTION DEFINITIONS



CONTRACTOR - A gambler who never gets to shuffle, cut or deal.



ARCHITECT - The one who knows the secrets that the Contractor tries to

discover.



ENGINEER - The one the Architect gets to blame when the Project doesn't

work properly.



SUBCONTRACTOR - The one the Contractor gets to blame when the Project

doesn't work properly.



OWNER - One who orders dinner without looking at the menu. The one who

pays for whatever the Architect and the Contractor decided to serve him.



BUILDING INSPECTOR - A former Contractor smart enough to get into another

line of work. Someone who changes ends in a tug-of-war.



PROJECT MANAGER - The conductor of an orchestra in which every musician is

in a different union.



SUPERINTENDENT - The Contractor's hired assassin.



BID - A wild-assed guess carried out to two decimal places.



BID OPENING - A poker game in which the losing hand wins.



LOW BIDDER - A Contractor who is wondering what he left out.



ARCHITECT'S ESTIMATE - The cost of construction in heaven.



PLANS - The Contractor's peek at the Architect's secret.



SPECIFICATIONS - The stick used by the Architect to whip the Contractor

whenever the Contractor makes a wrong guess about the Architect's secret.



RFI - The Contractor's request for a hint about the Architect's secret.



PROJECT - A Coliseum in which the Owner is the Christian and the Contractor

and Architect do battle to see who will be the lion.



ARCHITECT'S APPROVAL - The coin toss that occurs after the game has begun.



CRITICAL PATH METHOD - A management technique for loosing your shirt under

perfect control.



CONTRACTOR'S SCHEDULE - Comic relief in a play about construction.



CHANGE ORDER - The Contractor's chance to win the lottery.



DRAW REQUEST - The Contractor's attempt to grab the pot and run before the

last hand is played.



OSHA - A protective coating made by half-baking a mixture of fine print,

red tape, split hairs and baloney -- usually applied at random with a shotgun.



LAY-OFF - An event that usually occurs just before holidays or immediately

after buying a big-ticket item on time.



UNION - A group of pseudo-economists who believe that income should

increase directly proportionate to decline in productivity.



STRIKE - An effort to increase egg production by strangling the chicken.



DELAYED PAYMENT - A tourniquet applied at the pockets.



SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION - The date upon which the Architect gives up.



LIQUIDATED DAMAGES - A penalty for failing to achieve the impossible.



COMPLETION DATE - The point at which liquidated damages begin.



WARRANTY EXPIRATION DATE - The point in time after which everything ceases

to work.



AUDITOR - People who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded.



LAWYER - People who go in after the auditors and strip the bodies.
 
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