Using Telephone wire for Electric Range

[RobertMacy]

How many postings has this thread gotten? This thread has been one of the most successful trollings I've ever seen!

[Stormin Mormon]

It's been a bit like watching a bloody traffic wreck, watching the swinging contest on how to name, and describe the phase of power coming into a house. I'm remembering Tom Lehrer and his comments about people who endlessly bemoan the fact that they can't communicate.

[Bob_Villa]

...for wiring a Princess phone!

[Bob_Villa]

Can I assume you mean the plug the operators used to make a connection?

[TomR]

Happy Halloween.

[willshak]

You can use the telephone wire. That way, you can turn on the range by phone.

[DerbyDad03]

I wouldn't label this as a successful troll because no one took the OP seriously, there is no discord, no arguments, no upset members of this group.

It doesn't fit the definition of a successful troll since the vast majority of the responses are in jest. A real troll must be a deliberate act to piss people off or, at a minimum, believable enough for people to respond seriously, even if they don't get mad.

This one was way too obvious for anyone to think it was a real question.

[WW]

Any one here using Outlook Express? Can you tell me how to plonk people like the OP on this topic. So I won't see them again. WW

[TimR]

I went to the same guy. I'd been to several doctors with my stabbing eye pains after drinking coffee. I thought it must be some kind of allergy they could treat.

They all told me the same thing, if coffee bothers you don't drink it. Well, doh, but I like coffee.

But not the Winnipeg guy. That dude was SMART! He told me just take the spoon out of the cup.

[Stormin Mormon]

Phone, phone on the range. Where the deer and the antelope play....

[Stormin Mormon]

I used to. Try click message. Slide down, click "block sender".

[Stormin Mormon]

with my stabbing eye pains after drinking coffee. I thought it must be some kind of allergy they could treat.

you don't drink it. Well, doh, but I like coffee.

told me just take the spoon out of the cup.

I went to the oral surgeon, to have a tooth taken out of my face. Asked the surgeon if I'd be able to play violin after. He asked if I could play violin now. No. Well, that's your answer. He's smarter and faster than I. He also did a very skilled extraction.

[Stormin Mormon]

Would you consider Kirwatt and Trader, and their swinging contest to be some what like you mean?

[DerbyDad03]

Thanks.

Lily Tomlin was one of my favorite comedians during the Laugh-in and early SNL eras.

[hrhofmann]

Those old switchboards did use plugs that were what we now call 1/4". Howe ver, the plugs actually had tip, ring, and sleeve. The tip was obviously t he tip of the plug, the ring was the circumferential area behind the tip. a nd the second ring behind the first ring was called the sleeve. It was use d for signalling, as I recall. I started working at Bell Labs in 1957, but it was on the first electronic switching systems and I never got to actual ly work with those old operator switchboards.

[krw]

No, it was the perfect answer for HomoGay.

[hrhofmann]

No, 73 is not old enuf. You must be at least 80 to have worked with t-r-s plugs.

[Tony Hwang]

I ran cables, laced cables, wired MDF, CDF, maintained battery banks at switching plant. I worked on Stroger, EMD racks.... Do I have to be 80 for all this? I also worked on Teletype writer 33, 35, 38, etc., LOL! Being a ham since '60 I still swing bugs. My better half bought me a Vibroplex president model with gold plated base and ruby bearings for my birthday way back when?.... Also I worked on m/w voice links. I whistled a lot when I was working on the link. Remember 1750 or 2400Hz ringer carrier signal?

[Chip C]

Further, this is the first time EVER on this group that a question about range wiring hasn't degraded into a fight over separating the neutral. I guess because he said right off the bat he was using four-wire cord...

Chip C Toronto

[Stormin Mormon]

Bother, even the quality of trolls is failing.