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Flat-screen TV emits international distress signal (Michael Moore on when distress signal started?)
CNN (from Reuters) ^
| October 18, 2004
Posted on 10/18/2004 10:28:58 PM PDT by twntaipan
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This one is too funny. I bet the TV just could not take the DNC and liberal junk on the toob.
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:29:00 PM PDT
by
twntaipan
To: twntaipan
LOL! Also, it could not take all the earthquakes that occur when Michael Moore walks.
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:30:56 PM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Proud rabbit hater and killer)
To: twntaipan
I heard about this on the radio. I laughed so hard. The radio guys spent over a half hour talking about how this could happen. I bet the guy who owns the television didn't find it humorous when those people came to his door.
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:31:26 PM PDT
by
Merry
To: twntaipan
yeah im sure thats what the tv was thinking
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:31:53 PM PDT
by
Fallstaff
To: twntaipan
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:32:46 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: twntaipan
I wish they'd mention which Toshiba model it was. I bought a flat screen Toshiba (30" tube) HDTV last December. So far no search & rescue teams in the neighborhood . . .
To: twntaipan
He shouldn't have been watching SEE-BS News.
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:34:09 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(The price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
To: twntaipan
It's called spurious harmonics. 121.5 Hertz is nearly the harmonic of 60 Hertz, which coincidentally is the frequency emitted by wall power outlets.
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:34:20 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
To: twntaipan
LOL!! that is, I beleive, freaky
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:41:49 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: twntaipan
TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite ...and I get snow on FOX thirty miles away. hmmmm
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:51:21 PM PDT
by
uncleshag
(The Insightful Chastigator)
To: twntaipan
lol. I was in Walmarts today and this loud shrill alarm went off. I asked a floor employee what was happening. He said "I don't know. I guess it's some kind of alarm" Suddenly it stopped. I replied "No kidding but for what"? He just laughed and shrugged and joked (I think) "maybe it was a bomb alarm" This kid either really good at keeping people calm or had no idea about the store codes.
To: BigSkyFreeper
The signal was at 121.5 Megahertz, not 121.5 Hertz...
Most likely, it was a bad oscillator or RAMDAC chip.
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posted on
10/18/2004 10:57:41 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: ikka
Yeah, my mistake, I was thinking 121.5 MHz, but wrote Hertz instead, 121.5 MHz happens to be near the bottom end of the aircraft frequency spectrum of 118.0 MHz.
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posted on
10/18/2004 11:00:58 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
To: uncleshag
Huh? Hell, I get snow on my roof anytime from late October until March, sometimes as late as April.
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posted on
10/18/2004 11:03:43 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge Ski
(To be dealt with as wolves are.)
To: twntaipan
The only distress signal that'd get Moore's attention is when the lights go out at the nearest Krispy Kreme.
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posted on
10/18/2004 11:05:59 PM PDT
by
mafree
To: CindyDawg
lol. I was in Walmarts today and this loud shrill alarm went off. I asked a floor employee what was happening. He said "I don't know. I guess it's some kind of alarm" Suddenly it stopped. I replied "No kidding but for what"? He just laughed and shrugged and joked (I think) "maybe it was a bomb alarm" This kid either really good at keeping people calm or had no idea about the store codes. Heh. I was in the science building once during my college days when I started hearing a periodic dinging noise (about twice/second). I asked me professor what it was, and he didn't seem to know, so I walked out to the hall and fired the dinging noise to a large bell labeled "FIRE".
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posted on
10/18/2004 11:06:47 PM PDT
by
supercat
(If Kerry becomes President, nothing bad will happen for which he won't have an excuse.)
To: supercat
lol. Our leaders:'). I'm going to call the manager and ask the significance tomorrow. I have heard this siren before but can't place the sound. Never at Walmarts though. I wonder if it's a new security being installed. If so, then they really need to train the staff on disaster response.
To: onef
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posted on
10/18/2004 11:15:57 PM PDT
by
beaversmom
(Michael Medved has the Greatest radio show on GOD's Green Earth)
To: Old Sarge Ski
Hey! I got a headful... William Tager had it right and I think it applies here.
"Tager asked, What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
... and poor Kenneth to this day can't answer.
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posted on
10/19/2004 12:04:56 AM PDT
by
uncleshag
(The Insightful Chastigator)
To: twntaipan
Generally you don't see panic coming from a TV set.
A microwave or a DVD player, maybe, but TV sets are usually calm and level-circuited. Odd, to be sure.
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posted on
10/19/2004 12:14:11 AM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(John Kerry is a hunter like my name is Mohommad.)
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