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ProfessorGAC

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54. If It Had Worked...

Reply to Maraya1969 (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2024, 04:13 PM

May 2024

...I'd have notified the Nobel Committee on your behalf! : chuckle:
Think of the potential! (Potential; get it?)

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So I have this strip surge protector that is plugged into the wall right next to my couch [View all] Maraya1969 May 2024 OP

Yeh, that's not going to work dweller May 2024 #1

You need what's called True Dough May 2024 #2

I could do that. Last week my husband cut MOMFUDSKI May 2024 #3

The main reason DENVERPOPS May 2024 #30

IRP lonely bird May 2024 #41

Oh my, LB DENVERPOPS May 2024 #43

Don't feel bad! You don't wanna know how long it took me to spot the issue, LOL! 50 Shades Of Blue May 2024 #4

aaahhh...a perpetual motion machine believer... ret5hd May 2024 #5

I inherited this: GreenWave May 2024 #13

My grandfather had that exact same clock... SeattleVet May 2024 #20

What a beautiful clock! Lonestarblue May 2024 #45

You beat me to it. grumpyduck May 2024 #51

Oops captain queeg May 2024 #6

The only way that could work sdfernando May 2024 #7

You are not the only member of that club. I did the exact same thing a couple months ago. LoisB May 2024 #8

I think I too... crud May 2024 #9

You did it! I thought it not possible, but you did it! You topped George on Seinfeld when his date invited him up for brewens May 2024 #10

It just needs a little blinker fluid. Arne May 2024 #11

Well, it is always good to have an extra--so there is that. hlthe2b May 2024 #12

My son is an electrician.... getagrip_already May 2024 #14

I have a garage door clicker in my pool bag. MOMFUDSKI May 2024 #15

Same thing with people DENVERPOPS May 2024 #31

It's a big Club and MOMFUDSKI May 2024 #16

The perpetual motion machine. SarahD May 2024 #17

Bless you and me and all of us. yonder May 2024 #18

Wow... rubbersole May 2024 #19

Okay, I laughed out loud at that one! PatSeg May 2024 #21

Plug your television set into this Pinback May 2024 #22

Describes Republican logic very well though peppertree May 2024 #23

Have a small electric saw richdj25 May 2024 #24

Had to reread it. LiberalFighter May 2024 #40

You put the blade on backwards grumpyduck May 2024 #52

Energy crisis solved! Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #25

Are you positive . . . AverageOldGuy May 2024 #26

I laughed my head off seeing this. Dem2theMax May 2024 #27

Not to be a spoilsport, but did you check to see if it has a breaker you can reset, or hidden fuse? usonian May 2024 #28

Now that one I laughed out loud! Maraya1969 May 2024 #39

This reminds me of a story a banker told me SCantiGOP May 2024 #29

Actually DENVERPOPS May 2024 #32

Ha ha heh! SWBTATTReg May 2024 #33

There's a certain type of person BaronChocula May 2024 #34

Perpetual energy, if that worked. n/t aggiesal May 2024 #35

When you plug a strip into itself . . . Aussie105 May 2024 #36

You need at least two power strips for that nuxvomica May 2024 #37

My surge protector ThoughtCriminal May 2024 #38

Ah, problem lonely bird May 2024 #42

The turbo-encabulator on my interocitor ThoughtCriminal May 2024 #56

Just being silly lonely bird May 2024 #57

"220, 221 whatever it takes." Niagara May 2024 #58

A complete circuit. It should work. lpbk2713 May 2024 #44

Any residual electricity will keep going around and around. Could become a fire hazard, maybe. Oopsie Daisy May 2024 #46

I've done the same dumb thing... slightlv May 2024 #47

I think you just discovered . . . Richard D May 2024 #48

Best CO2 reduction scheme evaah. KY_EnviroGuy May 2024 #49

No harm, no foul? dchill May 2024 #50

Your prior posts will be re-evaluated. Sneederbunk May 2024 #53

If It Had Worked... ProfessorGAC May 2024 #54

Thanks for giving me a good, hearty laugh this afternoon. Xavier Breath May 2024 #55