Loose Ribs

[Ron Nossaman]

> No offence was intended.  The few times I've run into loose ribs that 
> were actually making noise, it was more of a rumble.
> 
> br

None taken. I was just giving Clark benefit of the doubt that 
he had actually verified the source of the noise instead of 
guessing it was the ribs because they are visibly loose. If he 
guessed, he shouldn't have stated the guess as fact, but 
rather done the work and chased down the real source - which 
may still be the ribs - or not. If he has indeed "hands on" 
verified (rather than intuitively *knowing*) that the noise 
comes from the loose ribs, then all the commentary about 
alternate possibilities is superfluous. Meanwhile, forty 
messages have passed with no real information having been 
validated, which just strikes me as ineffective and wasteful.

So which is it?
Ron N