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If your girlfriend asks you to play "Smoke on the water" should you not throw a toaster in her bath?
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Your post is shocking ! Watt were you thinking?
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Whew! at least it wasn't Burn or Fireball...
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What should you not do if her favourite song is "Light My Fire" (The Doors)?
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Or, maybe a little darker . . . "The End".
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A toaster in the bath gives no smoke, it just makes the lights go off. No special effects like in the movies either. No lightning flashes for five seconds in the tub, and no screaming either. Muscles contract when electrocuted, so your weak electric signals from the brain are overwritten.
One might turn a deep purple color after though.
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Shouldn't make the lights go off. The toaster would be plugged into a wall socket, the lights run off a different circuit (with their own circuit breaker and/or fuse). If you've done this and the lights went off as a result, you should call an electrician and have your house checked out.
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DerekT-P wrote: Shouldn't make the lights go off.
It did. I mean, in theory it does.
DerekT-P wrote: The toaster would be plugged into a wall socket, the lights run off a different circuit (with their own circuit breaker and/or fuse). If you've done this and the lights went off as a result, you should call an electrician and have your house checked out. |
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If you that person, I skip.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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DerekT-P wrote: Shouldn't make the lights go off.
If you have an earth-leakage circuit-breaker on your house/apartment's main electricity board (required in all Israeli construction), then it will shut off all electricity to the house/apartment. This includes lights and everything else.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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In the UK we have multiple circuits in the home; typically upstairs lights, upstairs sockets, downstairs lights, downstairs sockets; and often a separate one for cooker and/or shower. We use ring mains, rather than radial distribution, and each circuit is independent of the others. So when there's a problem with one thing, you can usually find your way to the problem because the lights are still on.
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I don't know the technical name, but the Israeli design for homes is as follows:
- A single connection (single-phase or three-phase) to the grid.
- This connection is protected by an earth-leakage circuit-breaker, which breaks the connection to the grid if earth leakage is detected.
- Behind the earth-leakage circuit-breaker, there are separate circuits (upstairs lights etc.), each protected by a fuse.
Most electrical faults trigger only the relevant fuse. The only time that I can recall the ground-fault circuit-breaker jumping was one winter, when we discovered that an external power point was inadequately waterproofed. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So you have gone from deep thoughts to Deep Purple thoughts!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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No play it like you know it even through the solo and she'll go up in smoke anyway.
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Since yesterday's CCC solution was Half Inch, being Cockney rhyming slang for Pinch.
The answer to OriginalGriff wrote: If your girlfriend asks you to play "Smoke on the water" should you not throw a toaster in her bath?
must be She'd be brown bread. (i.e. Toast, but also Cockney rhyming slang for Dead).
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I remember buying a book from Radio Shack about how to program graphics on the TRS-80 Model II.
That was in the '80s. Good times.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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yep. there was a small moment in time, where RadioShack was King.
then the internet came and all was lost.
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Those were the days. When people cared about documentation, when there was at least one cool electronics shop within biking distance, when people got together monthly for "user groups" that were hosted by big tech companies for free, when processors ran at 1 Mhz and that seemed fast enough.
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Ooo, I have a copy of this book somewhere.
I don't know why as I was more interested in the 6502.
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You were probably keeping an eye on the competition so you could disparage it!
6502/6510 ruled all of Britanica. (Ultima reference)
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Half inch is a common phrase meaning to take or steal ( pinch )
in is half of inch
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Didn't even get close to that ...
I look forward to tomorrows!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Was it too British ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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