Re: diy microwave alarm

[joe hey <joehey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 09:09:14 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote:

> "joe hey" <joehey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5361a337$0$45016$862e30e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:27:45 -0700, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Let me just say: There is no door in a strawberry field :)
>>>
>>> There is on a microwave.
>>
>> Yeah, well, that's what you get when you (Americans) give the devices
>> the name of their physical working principle, instead of their
>> function, as is customary elsewhere (in Europe): 'microwave' vs.
>> 'microwave oven'. (Pun intended :)
>
>
> You would prefer that Americans were more verbose?
>
> "We're about to be over run!  What should I do?"
>
> American, "Shoot the bastards."
>
> European, "You must first weigh the merits of defending yourself against
> the certainty of arrest by agents of the government for both possessing
> and utilizing a method of defending yourself against an oncoming
> attacker versus the merits of remain alive long enough to do so by
> making proper and optimum use of your illegally possessed Webley
> revolver to strike by explosive acceleration of a projectile as many as
> six, or half a dozen if you prefer, of the oncoming horde depending on
> your skill, accuracy, and nervous level to remove some of the threat by
> use of force thereby ridding the third planet of this solar system
> colloquially called Earth and occupied by humans among a host of other
> life forms from a harmful infestation some of whom may be children of
> descent of unwed parental stock."
>
> Hmmm..  pun-ishment huh?

Now _that_ was verbose :)