Subj : Re: Electricity Explained To : Daryl Stout From : Ron Lauzon Date : Tue Jun 22 2021 08:12:48 -=> Daryl Stout wrote to All <=- DS> example, in the past decade, scientists have developed the laser; an DS> electronic appliance so powerful that it can vaporize a bulldozer 2000 DS> yards away, yet so precise that doctors can use it to perfrom delicate DS> operations to the human eyeball; provided they remember to change the DS> power setting from "Vaporize Bulldozer" to "Delicate". My dad taught Jr. High for 43 years. One year they removed their slave clock system. For those who don't know, many schools had such a system where there was a pipe that ran to each clock in each room. The master clock would send out a pulse of compressed air to make the clocks all "tick" in sync. The removal of the slave clock system left a hole, about jr. High student high, in the walls of every class room. My dad's room was at the end of the hall. So, if you looked through the hole, you could see through all the classrooms all the way down the hall. My dad, being a science teacher and a practical joker, made up a sign that read: Over the summer, history was made in laser technologies by (my dad and the other science teachers). This also explains the hole in rooms 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, ... The 8th graders got a laugh. But the 7th graders (who's BS detectors were not fully developed yet) wondered for a while if it was true. The 6th graders didn't figure it out until the next year. .... I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on disk ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52 --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A47 2021/06/19 (Windows/32) * Origin: commconnbbs.net (1:120/457) .