RE: Random Humorous Things - A Light-Hearted Thread
October 4, 2020 at 12:18 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2020 at 12:25 am by A. Secular Human.)
(October 2, 2020 at 8:01 am)onlinebiker Wrote: My first radio was a Philco - tube. A.M. no internal antenna or speaker...
Beat that...
My first radio was a diode, an earpiece and a couple pieces of wire with alligator clips. I surreptitiously hooked one wire to the venetian blinds, and the other to the radiator in my 5th grade class, and secretly listened to a Dodger game on KFI, 640, the strongest AM radio station in the greater Los Angeles area. I had to hold the diode just so to get the channel.
(October 2, 2020 at 10:25 am)Fireball Wrote: One of my dad's friends, who was an accomplished mechanical engineer, knew about the tones generated by the remote. He jangled his car keys and got the TV to change state.
Heh, heh. I borrowed some tuning forks from my elementary school class science equipment, and fiddled with them until I got something to change on the TV. Proof of concept, don't you know?
Lest you consider me a thief, yes, I did take the tuning forks back. Miss Boortz was none the wiser. (And yes, I do still know all of my elementary school teacher's names.)
(October 3, 2020 at 6:35 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(October 2, 2020 at 8:01 am)onlinebiker Wrote: My first radio was a Philco - tube. A.M. no internal antenna or speaker...
Beat that...
"Radio"?
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Disappointing theists since 1968!