Actually it presents a far better example of how far backwards we've slid.
I remember the original episode well, possibly because being a central
Illinois farmboy I knew what hot dogs were of and would never eat one!
Anyway ... at the time there was no outcry of concern of any sort.  You see,
first of all we were taught how to follow instructions ... and we were
taught IN the school system from grade 1 about life, including electricity,
light switches and such.  We were also taught some sort of value that made
learning an important experience and part of life ... today that series
would be of little interest to most students, whereas at the time it was
followed by the sports-jocks, music buffs, artistic and any other student
interest groups imaginable.

On 6/24/07, Jake Anderson <jake@vapourforge.com> wrote:
>
>
> >> I was horrified. Great demo, dangerous presentation.
> >> You can cook more than a hot dog that way.
> >>
> >
> > Quite!  Especially since most US sockets don't have switches on them,
> it's setting up for people to follow his example and end up rather dead...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Howard Winter
> > St.Albans, England
> >
> Makes for a good demonstration of evolution though ;->
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