Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:58:34 -0800
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A Current Question of humor
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On 11/13/2009 8:42 PM Melissa Mourkas wrote:
> Perhaps best expressed as "the way I like my woman", as there is a Mrs.
> Squirrel (singular). :-)
Hi Melissa,
<FRIDAY>
You make a good point, but for maximum humor effect this running series of
jokes is meant to build up a complicated and hopefully contradictory body
of adjectives describing a set of qualities that no sane man, or woman,
would ever want in a partner and should make no sense when applied to any
person, living or dead, male or female, or even human for that matter. If
it causes befuddlement on the part of the reader, I'm doing my job. For
example, couple weeks ago I did a trial run of the same joke after "dank
and resentful -- the way I like my women." To suggest that my dear wife is
either would be libelous and mean, and quite untrue. But it's really
really puzzling. Which made me giggle. Probably annoyed others, but I know
from funny and can be easily amused.
</FRIDAY>
<VANAGON>
Everything that Steve Williams and Scott Daniels have to say on John
Meeks's question make perfect sense to me. The Anderson PowerPoles are
brutal connectors and I'd totally trust them to handle the current. They
are easily as beefy as the teeths on your normal FLAPS jumper cables in
terms of contact area and low resistance. Until I installed the DC > DC
charger between my starter battery and house battery, I had a switch
rigged up to manually bridge the two together by powering the big relay
which bridges them when the alternator is up to speed. But adding the
charger complicated things. The house battery can't send current backwards
through it to juice up the starter battery. Wiring around the charger and
existing relay (to avoid connecting the output of the charger to its
input, such a thing possibly causing creation of Higgs bosons and a
world-ending black hole) requires a bit more wiring than I care to tackle
at this point.
So I reckon that if I find myself with a discharged starter battery and a
charged house battery and hope the start the engine I'll jump the two
batteries together with a jumper cable, sit and watch the hills for a few
minutes, then crank 'er over.
</VANAGON>
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
On 11/13/2009 8:42 PM Melissa Mourkas wrote:
> Perhaps best expressed as "the way I like my woman", as there is a Mrs.
> Squirrel (singular). :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>
>>
>> Simpler, more reliable, with multiple modes of operation. The way I like
>> my women.*
>>
>> ==============
>> * Okay, that's stupid. I'm still refining my "that's the way I like my
>> women" line of humor.
>
>
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