I'm not sure I actually believe this, but it's amusing to think about,
and no more tedious than some of the recent rants we've had...
(Is winter over, yet?)
> An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her
>telephone failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few
>occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the
>phone rang.The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see
>this psychic dog or senile elderly lady. He climbed a nearby 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 loudly 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 phone
>number was called.
>After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and then
urinate
>on himself and the ground.
>>The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to
ring.
>
>Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and
moaning.
[Jim Jarvis]
N2EA
(yeah, ok, the devil made me do it!
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