[DMCForum] Re: Electricity?

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You *KNOW* Walt's an alchemist. Do you really need to add fuel to his
confused fire?

Bill Robertson
#5939


>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Toby Peterson" <tmpintnl@xxxx> wrote:
> Not to derail a fascinating topic like dark suckers instead of light 
> producers, but ...
> 
> Have you heard of the "English Theory of Electricity"?  What this 
> says is that electricity is actually composed of smoke.  This can be 
> easily proven - when you have a device that fails, a wisp of smoke 
> comes out of it, and it no longer works.  The smoke has escaped, 
> leaving the device powerless.  Wires are actually little pipes that 
> carry the smoke from here to there.  If you damage a pipe, I mean 
> wire, the smoke escapes, and the device quits working.  All of those 
> little bits like resistors and capacitors actually manage the flow of 
> smoke.  Relays are actually remotely controlled valves that use a 
> little smoke to move a valve in order to regulate a big stream of 
> smoke.
> 
> I smile and tip my hat to all of our English friends.
> 
> Toby Peterson
> 
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Walt has already admitted he's an alchemist. I think you may have 
> lost him by the second sentence.
> >

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