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In the UK, a telephone subscriber is (was?) signaled by sending 90 volts across one side of the two-wire circuit and ground (earth). When the phone is answered, it switches to the two-wire circuit for conversation. This method allows two parties on the same line to be signaled without disturbing each other.
An elderly man called British Telecom engineers to say that his telephone nearly always failed to ring when his friends called. On the few occasions when it did ring, his dog always barked first. A technician climbed a nearby pole, connected his test set, and dialed the house. The phone didn't ring.
On investigation, it was found that the dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron chain and collar, and was receiving 90 volts of signaling current. After several jolts, the dog urinated on the ground and barked. The wet ground then conducted and the phone rang.
modified 22-Sep-20 11:34am.
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What impedance does the dog need to have for this to work?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Good question, but you're asking the wrong person.
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The cockney rhyming slang for a phone is - dog and bone.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That's a fantastic story. I'm only adding mine for fun now, since yours has mine beat by miles.
20 years ago I was playing with an auto-transformer circuit and a bistable vibrator with discrete parts on a breadboard - both powered from a couple of AA cells. Something distracted my one saturday morning so I tossed it all to one side.
A couple of weeks later when playing with it again, while watching music videos on the telly, I noticed that a band of interference appeared across the top 1/4 of the screen - timed perfectly with the flashing LED. Hmmmmmm!
The next day the fella across the road asked if we'd also had problems with TV reception for the last couple of weeks, saying he'd been unable to enjoy anything with all the interference.
I never did let on that it was me.. 
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enhzflep wrote: I was playing with an auto-transformer circuit and a bistable vibrator...
That'll be all for today, children.
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Hmm. I wonder how many read that and had no idea what I was talking about.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's on TV at 7am in Wale
Bugger all.
"Breakfast TV news magazine shows", and (on satellite) the usual load of old rubbish you can watch at any time of day: repeats of repeats of reality shows featuring ohgodwhatsthepointjustkillmenow.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Had it been me, the story might have read,
Quote: Jones said the resident was "mortified overjoyed" by the news and "immediately agreed to switch it off and not use again....for a freakishly large amount of cash"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I heard a similar story from OpenReach technicians trying to fix my fibre broadband when it was playing up - they mentioned several other cases in the city where I live where old TVs caused sufficient interference to generate enough noise on a copper line to bring down ADSL broadband. The person with the old TV was offered a new TV in exchange for the old one - problem solved.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Is a good composer too hot to Handel?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It's nothing my dog wouldn't Bach at, so don't Strauss out about it, just add it to your little Liszt.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My usual overly Verdi reply: First, of course, if you Telemann these things in the form of a pun it may fall flat. Naturally, you coda done this sort of staff more discretely but that might Scarlatti the pottential posters away.
Tell me, if you would, does a noisy dog Offenbach?
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Bryan Adams says so, but that composition is not part of his best work.
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Makes me think of UFO and recently departed Pete Way  .
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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... and if he is, do you shout "Hallelujah!" when you get burnt while shaking his hand?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Saw that commercial (advert) last night. At first, of course, my Mrs. was wondering if it were indeed the actually actors or actors portraying actors. Then, of course, she realized I didn't really care.
MUTE BUTTON !
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: MUTE BUTTON !
THAT WORKS ON YOUR WIFE?!? 
Tell me where you bought it, I beg you!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Brilliant!  And it takes a lot for me to be impressed by an advert. They usually only succeed in annoying me.
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I think I must have an internal ad blocker, I don't recall any of those ads, mind you I don't watch a lot of TV either.
We do have a guy here who does the voice overs for lots of long winded ads selling crap products - the "wait but we have more" rubbish.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Hilarious! Thanks for sharing. I don't watch TV so don't see commercials...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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