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Nizzle:

And then cut downstairs to the poor cook, who's watching the lightbulb on her kitchen ceiling fill up with water and explode.

DNK,

I can't be the only to suggest Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles from the old days ??

"Badges, we don't need no stinkin badges"

It's not a movie quote, but:

"I aint been the same since ah drank my thermometer..."

You've just reminded me that there was one episode where they were in a hotel in London on some assignment, and doing something with the wiring.

It's funny how every receptacle in a London hotel was an American type........

If tv is ok, what about the 'steam wireless?'

*Neddy Seagoon, (staccato): Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat!!

Grytpipe Thinne, (laconic drawl): Only six watts Neddy? You're not very bright!

* The Highly Esteemed Goon Show. Tonight 1900 BST; The mystery of the Marie Celeste ( Solved). Or repeated tomorrow-Sunday next week anytime on 'Listen Again' - see homepage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/

Alan

PS *Not from tonite's show- this series ran for about 10 years 1950- 1960.

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Iwire reminded me of this: While watching a documentry on the making of the movie Die Hard, the narrator explains that So now 20A single phase lighting circuits are tapped off of 24 kilovolt utility primaries, eh?

-John

You would think from all my younger days watching "Larry, Moe and Curly", I would at least rememmber one from them.


Has anyone seen my memory around?

Dnk........

Memory!? I'm looking for my teeth!
Alan

I have to chuckle at all those movies where at the moment the bad guy gets his just desserts in the chair, every light in the prison dims to about a quarter of normal brightness.

C'mon now, they can't all have had a service installed by a hack electrician who thought that #12 Romex was enough to feed the entire jail!

I can't remember the title or the exact words, but I've even seen one old movie where the lights in all the houses across town dimmed too, prompting one of the bad guys to say "That's it for poor old Lefty" or something similar.

AFAIK, electric chairs are powered by a dedicated generator. At least they were at one time...

[This message has been edited by NJwirenut (edited 08-02-2005).]