The charging took place when they refined the copper and the zinc, and from the lemon tree turning sunlight, air, and water into citric and ascorbic acids. ;-)
If one is around 12 years old, and a friend says "try chewing on some aluminum foil", 9 out of 10 people will try it. As I, er, as ONE grows older and knows better, one still retains the memory of the fooish stuff I--I mean ONE--did as a youngster.
I heard that someone put the little Energizer Bunny's batteries in backward, then, instead of going and going and going, the little bunny kept coming and coming and coming until he died from sexual exhaustion.
Then there's the ever-popular "last stick of gum in the pack that's been sitting on the dashboard melting and re-hardening until the foil won't come off and you don't notice that you didn't get all of it until you chomp down on it" event.
I think my "best score" on that one was about a 6 foot leap sideways as I bit down on the tinfoil that was stuck to the gum, and instantly got hit in the side of the head by an invisible baseball bat (swung by an equally invisible assailant), to the accompaniment of the world's biggest flashbulb going off inside my head, and a sound like Gallagher schmucking a watermelon on a bass drum.
Nothing like a jolt of electricity straight to the brain via the mouth...
Needless to say, I won't touch a stick of gum that doesn't "peel clean" on the first try anymore!
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