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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Nope. I read it once in a book and found it immediately understandable, and have used it myself since to describe that particular arrangement. It's efficient :)
Your kids are kind of weird. Or maybe just homeschooled ;-)
In my email this morning...
Subject: Something you'll be glad to learn...
A South Carolina farm wife called the local phone company to report that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire via a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3 The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called. (poor puppy...)
4. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.
ALL of which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.
~shakes head~
Good morning Hobbit Hole :~)
Ha ha!!
I just think it's so dang funny!
Most of the time I think when parents and kids worlds collide, it's not good...there's conflict. But in our case it just seems hysterically funny to me!
Good morning!
And saying and saying... LOL!! Good morning.
Aw geesh. Poor dog!
Funny, though.
Good morning!
Starting school...see ya later!
(The little sloppy one drooping over the side is a nice touch)
I'm sooo going to bring that to a potluck someday. Give me a few more decades.
Happy birthday, Rosie!
~shudder~
It's your birthday today?
Thanks!
No one caught that in the conversation last night?
Yeah...I'm 30. Ungh.
No family member has said Happy Birthday either, though. Well...Dad did on Sunday. I imagine the rest fergot.
< /Eeyore>
LOL! I like those!
Though...I imagine if I tied a balloon to the tail of one of the real cats...it'd go a bit differently...
Want us to take you out for a drink, or some ice cream, or both tonight?
Sounds like it has great entertainment potential, let's try that :~D
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