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Post #339,334 by rcareaga 2/2/11 10:29:09 PM Reply	And France sends electrons west Power surges called the TV pickup are unique to Britain. The engineers at the National Grid control centre brace themselves each time Eastenders ends and 1.75 million kettles get switched on. http://www.bbc.co.uk...timebritain.shtml cordially, (oh, and to AG above: I well remember "Medallion Homes" from my LA boyhood. What folly!)
Post #339,439 by Ashton 2/6/11 2:13:04 AM Reply	Doubtless you recall also, a Mr. Reddy Kilowatt? -- the spokes-puppet for these abortions which, not unlike The 6000 Year Old Earth: thought that 'F=MA' was an inconvenient truth postulated by some anti-bizness junk-science. Last I heard, Mr. Kilowatt was seen advising one R. Reagan about space umbrellas to protect the Right-eous ... all in a day's work for.. Bicycle Repairman.
Post #339,474 by rcareaga 2/6/11 8:33:11 PM Reply	Mr. Reddy Kilowatt Last viddied with mine own eyes at a power plant on the outskirts of Cedar City UT at the end of 1978. RK on the sign; towers, wires, transformers, smokestacks; gigantic mounds of coal (I had not known prior to that time that coal was the base of electric power generation that far west). cordially,
Post #339,478 by Andrew Grygus 2/6/11 9:50:46 PM Reply	Last I saw of Mr. Ready . . . . . was on the marquee of the old electric office on Caheunga Blvd. in Hollywood, now gone for some decades. I think he had to buy a one way ticket to the Bahamas when "too cheap to meter" didn't work out.

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