Dang it was just a question.

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 2:49AM

AskRaq · May 23, 2007 2:50AM

Well, is there a slot to drop a COIN in????

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 2:51AM

<<

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Did it go poof?

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 2:51AM

Um yes!

NowhereMan · May 23, 2007 2:52AM

Well, you did warn that you might disappear -- perhaps it was your thread you should have been worried about going...

Poof!

Rex

StrikeOutXXX · May 23, 2007 2:52AM

I kept waiting for a coin-related twist like electricity for a humidity controlled safe or something, but it never came...

Marty's thread went poof too - and I thought that was an actual interview - we aren't doing to good today.

Russ · May 23, 2007 2:53AM

I'm building a perpetual motion machine. Anybody interested?

Russ, NCNE

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 2:54AM

<< I'm building a perpetual motion machine. Anybody interested?

Russ, NCNE >>

How much $?

Russ · May 23, 2007 2:56AM

<< << I'm building a perpetual motion machine. Anybody interested?

Russ, NCNE >>

How much $? >>

Half the cost of 10 years worth of electricity, but it will last longer than that.

Russ, NCNE

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 2:57AM

Edison and Tesla had critics too.

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 2:57AM

<< Edison and Tesla had critics too. >>

Add Russ to the list.

Russ · May 23, 2007 3:00AM

<< Edison and Tesla had critics too. >>

Edison was one of Tesla's critics.

(Of course that's because he was ripping off Tesla).

Russ, NCNE

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 3:01AM

With solid state electronic as long you do not turn it off and on all the time, it will last for 10 or more years.

Russ · May 23, 2007 3:03AM

<< With solid state electronic as long you do not turn it off and on all the time, it will last for 10 or more years. >>

You have a gift for profound proclamation.

Russ, NCNE

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 3:06AM

Do you know there is a light bulb in N. Y. that has been on for over a hundred years.

poorguy · May 23, 2007 3:08AM

<< 

<< Edison and Tesla had critics too. >>

Edison was one of Tesla's critics.

(Of course that's because he was ripping off Tesla).

Russ, NCNE >>

Yeah, it's too bad for Tesla that Edison pushed the public suggestion of how dangerous Tesla's AC current was by promoting it through the use of the electric chair! How's that for extreme marketing.

Russ · May 23, 2007 3:10AM

<< Do you know there is a light bulb in N. Y. that has been on for over a hundred years. >>

It's actually in California.

Russ, NCNE

StrikeOutXXX · May 23, 2007 3:10AM

<< Do you know there is a light bulb in N. Y. that has been on for over a hundred years. >>

Didn't know about one in NY, but there is one in California in Ripley's Believe it or not:

Firestation lightbulb 100+ years

Swampboy · May 23, 2007 3:11AM

<< Do you know there is a light bulb in N. Y. that has been on for over a hundred years. >>

Did you ever read Mamet's The Water Engine.?

Careful what you say in public.

DeusExMachina · May 23, 2007 3:13AM

+1

Thanks for the post count.

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 3:20AM

Yes there is one in California, thanks for adding it to the one in New york 1912, yours is older. I thought the one in N.Y. hit 100 years my bad.

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 3:23AM

"Did you ever read Mamet's The Water Engine.?"
No I did not know about that one, I knew about Tucker.
I have it patent pending.

ricko · May 23, 2007 3:33AM

How about PM'ing the question... I guess I missed it..... Cheers, RickO

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 3:34AM

<< How about PM'ing the question... I guess I missed it..... Cheers, RickO >>

There was no question.

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 3:45AM

Sorry for getting some people up tight.
If your happy paying a lot for electricity so be it, it is none of my business.
So sorry again.
The4x4man

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 3:49AM

<< Sorry for getting some people up tight.
If your happy paying a lot for electricity so be it, it is none of my business.
So sorry again.
The4x4man >>

My response in 2 points:
1. Most of us are joking.
2. This is a coin forum, so you have to understand why the first thread was nuked.

tahoe98 · May 23, 2007 3:50AM

<< Um yes! >>

I KNEW IT!

Russ · May 23, 2007 3:52AM

<< Sorry for getting some people up tight.
If your happy paying a lot for electricity so be it, it is none of my business.
So sorry again.
The4x4man >>

Oliver Stone is making a movie about us. It's called Natural Born Skeptics.

Russ, NCNE

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 3:57AM

Are you kidding? The nuke was a joke? That's a good one.
With what I'm building, I want to help people not hurt them.
The4x4man

P.S.
If you all want a coin slot on it, then I'll put one on just for you. But you will get your money back.

Pentimento · May 23, 2007 4:00AM

seemyauction · May 23, 2007 4:02AM

<< I'm building a perpetual motion machine. Anybody interested?

Russ, NCNE >>

Nope

seemyauction · May 23, 2007 4:02AM

<< Do you know there is a light bulb in N. Y. that has been on for over a hundred years. >>

its in a Fire Station

MadMarty · May 23, 2007 4:07AM

<< 

<< Do you know there is a light bulb in N. Y. that has been on for over a hundred years. >>

its in a Fire Station >>

In CA, Pleasenton I think.

ziggy29 · May 23, 2007 4:07AM

<< In CA, Pleasenton I think. >>

Close. Livermore.

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 4:13AM

<< Are you kidding? The nuke was a joke? That's a good one.
With what I'm building, I want to help people not hurt them.
The4x4man

P.S.
If you all want a coin slot on it, then I'll put one on just for you. But you will get your money back. >>

Now I'm just confused. In forum talk, nuke=poof. I separated comment 1 from comment 2, yet you combined both are arrived with the idea the a nuke is a joke?

JimDepot · May 23, 2007 4:14AM

Who cares! Lightbulbs are modern crap.

Russ · May 23, 2007 4:21AM

<< Who cares! Lightbulbs are modern crap. >>

Not the one that's been burning since 1901.

Russ, NCNE

the4x4man · May 23, 2007 4:25AM

Go and nuke the post, I'm done.
I have get back to soldering medical leads for my wife's job.
Later,
The4x4man

JimDepot · May 23, 2007 4:47AM

<< 

<< Who cares! Lightbulbs are modern crap. >>

Not the one that's been burning since 1901.

Russ, NCNE >>

"EARLY CANDLES
Necessity is the mother of invention and early candles sometimes took rather bizarre forms to utilize available resources. The use of, and improvements to candles has parallelled mans ascent from the stone age. There is no historical record of the first candles used by man, however clay candle holders dating from the fourth century B.C. have been found in Egypt. Early Chinese and Japanese candles were made with wax derived from insects and seeds molded in paper tubes. Wax skimmed from boiling cinnamon was the basis of tapers for temple use in India. The first known candle in America dates to the first century A.D. Native Americans burned oily fish (candlefish) wedged into a forked stick. Early missionaries in the southwestern United States boiled the bark of the Cerio tree and skimmed the wax. Settlers in New England used the same technique to obtain wax from Bayberries. To this day Bayberry candles are made the same way, although cost is prohibitive since it takes one and a half quarts of Bayberries to make an 8 inch taper candle. Tallow, made by rendering animal fat was another common candle making material. Because of its odor, beeswax was preferred although more expensive. The advent of paraffin in the 1800's made tallow obsolete, and it is rarely used in candles anymore."

Lightbulbs = Modern Crap.

Candle Linky

mozeppa · May 23, 2007 5:04AM

can candles be rated in "light bulb powers"?

AskRaq · May 23, 2007 5:05AM

Wow..... Don't tell me it was the coin slot that kept this "enlightening" thread going this long?!?!

dan8402 · May 23, 2007 5:34AM

<< Wow..... Don't tell me it was the coin slot that kept this "enlightening" thread going this long?!?!

>>

I think it takes the new presidential dollars only.

Dang it was just a question.

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