Radio Shack slogan (was Re: [OT] USB KVM switches)

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Thu Feb 3 00:38:54 CST 2005


Eric Smith wrote:
> The salesman was curious as to why I kept buying fuses.  I explained
> what I was doing.  He told me that I should just short across the
> fuse holder.

That kind of advice usually earns a swift boot to the head.  Geez, even my 
grandfather, who was by no means an electrician, was fond of saying "Penny'll 
start a fire" (referring of course to shorting out an old-style round fuse with 
a penny).
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