On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Bill & Pookie wrote:

> Whoever invented the toy train transformer should have a plaque dedicated to 
> them wherever kids get together and talk of discovery and destruction.
>
> My big thing was to build a capacitor, charge it with the train transformer 
> and then watch it discharge with a spark.

Did you ever connect it backwards, at the end of a long wire, under a 
buddy's chair ?

> Years later the government taught me how to achieve my goal.

Umm.

Peter
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