Most awful hack job, but my kid likes it

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...and I hope we never do.

-- Ed Huntress

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.] On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:03:04 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote in Msg.

I wasn't advertising myself as a role model. I was just dragging in a rather far-fetched analogy between drug and automobile use.

I do not care how much people drink or drive (or both) as long as they do it far away enough to not bother me.

robert

I used to do that, when I was a kid. It was better for scaring friends than cooking hotdogs, but it did work. Watch electricity cook the grease out of a hotdog, imagine it happening to you. The Electric Chair was still used then.

It turned out that 110 volts was too much for a hotdog, causing the meat touching the contact spikes to burn too soon, breaking the circuit. But ~50 volts worked just fine, which is why the little hotdog cookers put two dogs in series.

And, the contact spikes needed to be a very stainless steel, or one would get that odd taste. Gold plating would probably solve the problem, but wasn't in the cards. These cookers were *cheap*.

I used square 1/8 rods (skewers in a former life), but a pair of flat stainless steel blades might work better, having more area in contact with the meat.

Don't forget the fast-acting 10-amp fuse or breaker, to protect the variac in case something metallic gets across the spikes. Even aluminum foil will be dramatic.

Joe Gwinn

Possibly the most dangerous addiction of all is the addiction to the illusion of control.

But I've already plonked this "Harold and Susan" troll.

Thanks, Rich

I'm pretty sure she got fired, too. :-)

Harold

wanted

defenseless

I've been thinking about doing it for ten years. Maybe in another ten.

Of course. Commies use ketchup. That's one way to tell a spy. Another way is to ask them what they think of the Brooklyn Dodgers winning the pennant.

-- Ed Huntress

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Good grief. I should have known that *someone* here had actually done it.

How about kielbasa?

-- Ed Huntress

All right. Tell us about the Russian and the carrot slicer.

-- Ed Huntress

Never tried it; ought to work. Best for frightening Polish friends?

Joe Gwinn

Which brings to mind the old joke about the Russian and the carrot slicer

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

These were mass production in the U.S. - sold in the food store I want to say - had beautiful patterns on the outside and wheat seeds around it - Think it was from a depression ceramic company ... The glaze was multi-color in the light - Tomato acid and others will etch - .. I forget how we found out - dumped them quick. (likely to late :-) ) Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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Ed -

If you go fishing - that is how you drive worms out of the ground - two prods with 120V plug on the other end - insert several feet across in a compost pile (we used a 4' deep (years and years at the cabin) coffee grounds as the pile) and the worms bail out! Un plug (or turn into a worm pile) and with plug in hand, (safety first) - the other hand picks up worms and puts them in the bucket.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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We did. And that's exactly what we used it for. Drainage ditches to gather nightcrawlers.

prods

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bucket.

Yeah, we had a discussion about this here a year or two ago. I remember those war-surplus hand-crank generators they sold in Pop Mechanics and such in the '50s. It always looked a little weird to me.

Anyway, some people have had great success with it, others haven't. Maybe it varies with the conductivity of the ground.

Or maybe it's a matter of how tough and mean your local worms are.

-- Ed Huntress

It's not necessarily a "Russian". He got fired for sticking his pecker in the carrot slicer (except when I heard it, it was the pickle packer). He goes to the tavern, and laments that he just got fired for sticking his pecker in the pickle packer. His pal asks, "What happened to the pickle packer?" "Oh, she got fired too."

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Cheers!
Rich
 ------
 "A tired young trollop of Nome
  Was worn out from her toes to her dome.
    Eight miners came screwing,
    But she said, "Nothing doing;
  One of you has to go home!""

Aha! I should have known...

-- Ed Huntress

Yes and if you wanted to pick worms up where there wasen't 120 available the old hand cranked generators from an antique telephone worked just fine also. Now just how many of you folks had one of those to play with as a kid? :-) ...lew...

The coffee grounds really work - worms love them. Kills slugs also. Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

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a turntable motor from an old microwave oven can generate plenty of volts if hand cranked, I'm not sure if it's suitable for worming though.

Bye. Jasen