Today's Topics:
"Shaking hands with Jesus"
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 04:15 CDT
From: Screamin' Ray <VMORGAN@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu>
Subject: "Shaking hands with Jesus"
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Message-id: <F13F16888225E00A1C@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu>
In a recent TELECOM-DIGEST discussion on the benifits of
stripping phone wires with your teeth, spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu
(S. Spencer Sun) writes:
> [TELECOM Moderator's Note: ...And for an exciting display for
> a young friend who has little or no knowledge of the
> characteristics of electricity, let him watch while you
> 'innocently' touch one end of your screwdriver to the (still)
> juiced-up capacitors while another part of the metal touches
> the metal case on the unit or some other source of ground...
> bang! bang! pop! flash! No harm done, of course, and always
> good for a laugh as you watch them jump out of the way... PAT]
Reminds me of a section from The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams (should
be the second book after the Bible that a family buys, and the third
book is More of the Straight Dope) where he explains the need for
polarized plugs ... the following is more or less a quote (I'm not in
my room when I read news so I can't type it exactly): Take a plug and
strip the ends off the wires leading from it and plug in the wire.
Now take an obnoxious little child and put him in a bathtub full of
water and tell him you're going to show him an experiment called
"Shaking hands with Jesus." Show him how nothing happens when you
grab the dead/grounded wire, then hand him the wires, surreptitiously
substituting the live wire for the neutral one -- big laffs!
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