I don't think anyone was calling anyone else out, we were all just relaying our experience. We all do things a little differently. It's the whole "forum thing" where no one can hear the inflection in each other's voices, but if we were all sitting in the same room, we'd understand exactly.
Blair has obviously had one pop out before, and once you have one pop out, you start changing your assembly procedures to try and eliminate that ever happening again. I've never had a freeze plug pop out, even on drag race stuff, but something tells me that my time is now coming....LOL If it happens, then I'll remember how Blair did the fix and will implement that.
Every guy here that builds a bunch has a list of things that they check off as they assemble, based on years and years of putting them together and dodging things that have bit them in the hindend.
One that could have bit me in the hindend happened this morning: putting rings on a 460ci SBF and noticed that the oil rail support ends were touching.
Another one that could have bit me in the hindend a few weeks ago: custom 391 crankshaft that had been modified 10 ways to Sunday, but the front face of the thrust surface had about .005" of run-out in it. You could lay the crank in the block, push it forward up against the rear thrust bearing surface, rotate the crank, and watch the gap get smaller and bigger between the front thrust surface and the front side of the thrust bearing. Just glad I caught it, but it cost me a few weeks as I had to drop it off at my local crank grinder's shop and have it trued up.
That's why our assembly checklists keep getting longer and longer....