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RE: Home Auto Turner prize.


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Home Auto Turner prize.
  • From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:31:49 -0000
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

I started "playing" with electricity 38 years ago when I was 3.

My Grandad caught me poking a nail into a 5amp socket (luckily it was the
Earth pin) and decided it would be safer if he bought me a low voltage
electrical set. It consisted of 2 lampholders, two bulbs, a couple of
plastic lampshades (pink & green) and a couple switches along with wire
and
batteries. [Was that a "Turner Prize DIY Kit?"] Since then I have
made
several unsuccesful attempts at electrocuting/blowing myself up.

Biggest fuse I ever blew was a 100 Amp supply fuse whilst a nightclub was
open, blacked out one of the bars but the sound and light carried on.

I started "working" with electricity when I was 13 assisting the
electrician
at the local Pontins Holiday camp.

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell Macdonald [mailto:c.macd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 December 2001 21:57
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Home Auto Turner prize.


but you weren't supposed to play with electricity when you were a
boy......:-)

Hands Up all those whose parents who gave them into trouble for playing
with
the electricity.....Honest mum it wasn't me that blew the fuse....

Campbell




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