Homer or Cletus? I always had thought Homer, but I dunno now... Duh, light switch?
XINO
Who's more stupid?
Dec 17, 2005, 11:37 PM ET21 posts by 11 posters
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"Xino Kiner" wrote
I might point out that the entire USA uses light switches the wrong way round (up for on, down for off). You'd have thought someone would have told them by now...
Paul
"Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:43a4f7c0$0$17708$[email]...
My family's house when i was a kid had some light switches that went that way (up=on), and some that went the other way as well. Then there was the stairs hallway light that was controlled by dual switches, meaning sometimes a switch would be up=on, sometimes down=on.
Yes, i was a schizo child. ;-D
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 05:57:55 GMT, "DAShafer" wrote:
Those are called three way switches (insert sex joke here).
And you can add as many four way switches as needed in between.
"Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:43a4f7c0$0$17708$[email]...
That's because here, electricity flows *up*.
"R Flowers" wrote
That damned Coriolis effect - is nothing safe from it?
Paul
Nothing. In Australia all the light switches go in the opposite direction. Control volumes are different, too.
Aaron Xpace Mvx3vm
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Wow. Bizzaro! "That am so funny! Me want to cry!"
On 18 Dec 2005 19:00:55 -0800, "[email]" wrote:
So, down under, does "yes" *really* mean "no"?
Whenever I try to kiss my girlfriends Australian style, they never say no.
Aaron Xpac3 Mvx3vm
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[Tries to repress horrible mind-pictures of what kissing 'Australian style' might entail...]
Paul
On 19 Dec 2005 08:13:10 -0800, "[email]" wrote:
But, down under, does she go "up" on you?
[email] wrote:
Okay, now you're starting to make sense.
Now you had me running around in my flat and checking the light switches. Three are down=on, two are up=on. How very confusing.
"Klaus Petersen" wrote in message news:do7hq4$jst$[email]...
I hope you don't get confused at the cellar door, and turn the light off instead of on, while you're carrying your pies or bowling balls downstairs.That could be painful.
Oh, that's okay. I have donated all my 75 Watt bulbs to that lizard breeding society next door, anyway.
This has to be a Simpsons reference. Pies and bowling balls. I can't remember the reference, but it sure sounds like Homer to me.
When you fall down the stairs with your pies and bowling balls, just make sure you don't crush the toaster time machine that you have in the basement. Or the old TV Guides with lots of Gomer Pyle references in them "PIEEEULLLL!!!, SHUHZAM!!!" (hey, there's that word, "pie", again). Or the hammer that Maggie used to hit you in the head with.
Aaron Xpac3 Mvx3vm
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See Klaus' reply - that's a hint. Unless you're just being sarcastic :)
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:37:43 -0600, "Xino Kiner" wrote:
Homer is a bit on the stupid side, but Cletus we don't know about, for he is misunderstood. Whether he is stupid or not would depend on if he had been to school.
I prefer to think that Cletus is just ignorant.
DB
Or maybe he's never had the pleasure of using a light switch before, he is extremely poor after all.
Exactly,
The light switch joke is to show how poor Cletus is, not how stupid. A bit like the Otto line when the Simpsons put their house up for sale "wow" windows! I don't think I could afford a place like this"
"JohnD" wrote in message news:lxqpf.8130$[email]...