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"Electricity? What's that? Some sort of techno mumbo-jumbo?"

Date: 2006-09-12 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hallerlake.livejournal.com
"No sir, it's a song by Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark..."

Date: 2006-09-12 06:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agelesseuridice.livejournal.com
Survey says????

Date: 2006-09-12 06:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sasjhwa.livejournal.com
Wow. Did this person say that straight? Like they didn't know? Or was there some sarcasm going on? Or strange occultic context involving werewolves and Cornish pixies? That just seems so strange for someone who doesn't live in a cave and has access to both a computer and a telephone, but of which are filled to the brim with mumbo-jumbo. Don't trip! You'll spill it!

Date: 2006-09-12 06:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com
He was one of those "Aks a question / Talk over the answer" folks, too.

HIM: What's an EEE-ther net, anyway?

ME: Oh, that's a-

HIM: Don't see why I should need one anywho, since I've got an INNER-net, not an EEETHER-net!

Date: 2006-09-12 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com
Oh, he was completely serious. He was an older fellow... old enough to use phrases such as "Mumbo-Jumbo"...

Date: 2006-09-12 07:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nani-ka.livejournal.com
.............you have got to be kidding me.............

Date: 2006-09-12 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com
I wish... I *WISH* I was kidding.

Date: 2006-09-12 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qthuny.livejournal.com
do not snark the "mumbo-jumbo"

i found myself saying "malarky" (or however its spelled) just the other day. =\

Date: 2006-09-12 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scary-manilow.livejournal.com
You high-falootin' city folks and your big words!

Date: 2006-09-12 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] supernovame.livejournal.com
maybe he was amnesiac and had wandered off an amish farm?

Date: 2006-09-28 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bikerval.livejournal.com
I've been a computer programmer/systems analyst for 20 years and electricity is just Mumbo Jumbo to me too. Ha-ha! I've actually TRIED to understand it, but the descriptions go in circles. Watts leads to amps leads to volts leads to ohms leads back to watts again without anyone ever actually saying what electricity IS. It's magic.

Very funny stories. Keep us posted.

Date: 2006-09-28 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captain-slinky.livejournal.com
Glad you're enjoying my misery :)

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