Most awful hack job, but my kid likes it

Wow, the Schutzkontakt system looks really safe! I wonder if a kid could shock himself if he wanted to try...

Type F (German 2-pin, side clip earth) CEE 7/4

Here in the US the voltage is lower (110VAC) than in Europe (220VAC, correct)?

Shhh!!! Now you've done it... now those Iraqi dissidents will stock up on nail files and batteries to jam the Coalition's radios!

As a matter of fact, I do.

But I guess all us n****rs look alike to you.

Oh, I got it a long, long time ago.

Want some?

Thanks! Rich

They had one of those at a swim club we belonged to when I was a kid. The dog would come down into a rack, behind a plastic window; probes would plunge into each end; and the dog would wiggle, sizzle, and almost scream as the steam found new holes to come out of. When the dog was done and the probes came out, the probe-holes were a little blackened and a whisp of smoke came out of each end.

It was scary and intimidating. I always waited a minute or two before picking up the hot dog, to make sure all the electricity was out of it. It was a stern warning, too, to anyone who might be thinking of doing something that could get them fried in an electric chair.

-- Ed Huntress

D'ya suppose that's why they've banned fingernail files from airplanes?

Thanks, Rich

Hey, I'm weird, but DOOOD!! This is _WAY WEIRD_!

All sorts of electricity jokes spring to mind, first and foremost, "Was the pool electrically heated?"

It

something

It was pretty weird, but the dogs tasted just fine. Sometimes I'd get my mom to eat one, just so I could watch it cook...

I never looked. I was 9 at the time. But that was the beginning of my interest in ham radio.

-- Ed Huntress

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mom

Makes me wonder if some of the electrode was being eroded.

Thoughts?

Harold

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All good points.

I, too, take pleasure in the occasional glass of wine, or a scotch and water. I also make a killer margarita. I've been fortunate in that I can have a drink and walk away. Some folks don't enjoy that ability.

Harold

Folks that live in places like the UK are far better suited to living without having need for motorized vehicles. Their environments were, for lack of better description, more compact, with the necessities in life available within walking distances. It's a lot more difficult here in the US, especially in the west, where it's not uncommon to have literally hundreds of miles between towns----with some of them lacking even the essential services. Ours is such a town, and we are seven miles from it. Motorized travel of some kind is a necessity----but only because we choose to not raise our own meats, and, of course, we're limited as to the types and amounts of vegetables and fruits we can raise. Not being able to walk far enough in the course of a day, let alone a few hours, we must travel by vehicle. All of that was what we had to consider when we made the purchase of the property. We're almost where you are----we almost *never* take the truck out of the garage---except that one trip per week. Today will be one of the rare exceptions. We've been invited to dinner at a friend's house-----who lives 24 miles distant. Sure am thankful for my ability to get there in reasonable time.

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you that observe the day.

Harold

Robert, You are SO wonderful... barf ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I had one of the Presto Hotdoggers..a set of prongs you stuck the hot dogs on..and a safety switch on the cover.

They always had an odd aftertaste that reminded me of that particular flavor you taste after the dentist got done drilling a tooth.

Microwave ovens are so so much better for cooking tube steak.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:40:08 -0800, Harold and Susan Vordos wrote in Msg.

I can, and sometimes I can a bit more after drinking half a bottle of good wine ;-)

So do I.

Those that do need it are already addicted, and banning drugs wouldn't have stopped them from becoming addicted. It just makes them criminals on top of their addiction.

robert

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:06:47 -0800, Harold and Susan Vordos wrote in Msg.

It has become necessary because you have chosen a lifestyle that necessitates regular use of a motor vehicle. You are addicted to your car because you couldn't live without it unless you made a few inconvenient, if not downright painful, adjustments to your lifestyle until you have settled down.

Moreover, just like any smoker or alcoholic, you know very well that your "car habit" places your life at an elevated risk. Still you don't stop driving because you feel that the additional risk is well worth the benefit of a life in the country.

Thanks for introducing such a fitting analogy to the discussion!

I for my part use my car like I drink alcohol (but not simultaneously): I like to be able to use it when I want to, but I don't need it to sustain my chosen lifestyle.

robert

It was - it was a 'white metal' that pitted - poor source of metal in those days - at the price needed maybe. Shinny and black.

I tasted it - we finally got rid of ours because of it - just in case it was leaded. So much was back then - cooking ware used leaded glaze that leached under certain chemical mix. e.g. the fluted bowls that had wheat patterns on them...

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You damned kids never grow up!

Harold

mom

I don't remember the taste. When I was 9, any hotdog was better than no hotdog at all.

Somebody mentioned that Presto thing here a long time ago. I think it was you. I never saw one, but it sounds like one of those appliance gadgets they used to come up with in the '50s and '60s. The thing we had at the swim club was a big vending-machine deal. It had a little window in the middle.

Sometime I'm going to take a couple of pieces of brazing rod, stick them into a hotdog, and hook it all up to my big Variac. I've always wanted to turn up the juice on something like that...

-- Ed Huntress

those days -

was leaded.

certain

If the glaze isn't fully fired, orange juice will do it. A couple of head-scratcher lead-poisoning cases in southern California turned out to be that. The cups were made in Mexico.

-- Ed Huntress