On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Tim Wescott wrote:

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:51:21 -0700
From: Tim Wescott
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Subject: QUESTION: Fun with Svetlanas or Staying alive with kV power
supplies

straydog wrote:



On Fri, 14 Jul 2005 wrote:

Date: 14 Jul 2005 20:48:16 -0700
From:
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Subject: QUESTION: Fun with Svetlanas or Staying alive with kV power
supplies

From: straydog on Fri 15 Jul 2005 00:48


That's called trial and error. Or, try, smoke, fix. Like if ready, fire,
aim does not work, change the order to ready, aim, fire.


All electronics works on smoke. If the smoke leaks out,
it won't work...


;-) Reminds me of another joke I can't quite remember: something
dealing with the proof that electricity is really smoke, or something like
that. Maybe someone has a reference to that joke. It was pretty funny, too.

Art, W4PON

But electricity _is_ really smoke. They burn coal at the generating station
and it travels through the wires to your house, where it makes everything
work. Then the used smoke goes _back_ through the wires (why do you think
they call them "return" wires, eh?) to the generating station where it goes
up the smokestack.

If something should break then some of the smoke will leak out right there in
your house right before the thing stops working.

And that's how you know that electricity is smoke.

That's pretty good, but I seem to recall another slightly different
version of the joke but with some really clever line about the purpose
of insulation (and a half-believable rationale [rationale does not mean
scientific, however). Anyone else remember more of the details of this joke?


Art, W4PON

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