Re: Something to Bookmark

On Mon, 10 May 1999 08:31:06 -0700, Ray Ghanbari <ray@Agouron.COM> wrote:

>John St.Clair wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I'm really really leery about putting
>> this page up publically. Anyone else think I should just bag it?
>
>
>Don't put it up.
>
>Suggest a page detailing why it is dangerous as hell to even poke around
>a monitor (of any kind).
>
>Insist people have a TV repairman do the discharge for them. That way
>they can learn by watching.
>
>This is asking for trouble (remember the bell curve...for every Stephen
>Hawking, there is a Homer Simpson)
>
>Ray

It must hurt a bit, but it's not guaranteed death to be hit with the discharge
from a picture tube.

There was a jock in my electronics class that used to show off by discharging
TV's by holding one hand to the chassis and using the other to slip a piece of
wire under the HV cap. What an idiot! But hey he did get a bit of attention!

His best act was going next door to the auto shop and grabbing the ignition coil
(also with a wire of something under the cap) and holding on until the car
stalled.

Pretty damned funny to watch! He only did the car thing a couple of times and
while he laughed afterwards you can tell he was visibly shaken, he couldn't be
talked into it anymore, well, after the *second* time.

This guy wasn't even on the bell curve, he was hangin' on somewhere near the end
of the clapper!

And to think he got dates in high school and I didn't have a girl friend until I
was twenty!

But hey I'm not bitter! NOOOOO!!! I'm sure he's having a helluva good time
pumping gas at an ARCO station for tips! (A little gas for you, a little sniff
for me!) HA! HA! HA! HA! Yeah! Laugh up now funny boy! Want to stall my
engine while pumping that gas! HA HA HA HA!!!

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Damn! Twenty years of therapy all thrown away in one email! Who says the net
is a good place??!?

-Zonn (giggling manically in the corner of the room in a fetal position)

(For those who don't know me: The story of the jock is true. The bitterness is
made up -- well for the most part... hee hee hee... :^D )
Received on Mon May 10 12:41:12 1999