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15 Apr 2007, 11:04 pm

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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Proof that it isn't an humane to die, the method was invented by a dentist.

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15 Apr 2007, 11:48 pm

Actually the electric chair was an Edison invention, the purpose was to demonstrate the inherant danger of Tesla's alternating current.

Edison was a nasty person and unworthy of respect.

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16 Apr 2007, 5:29 am

To thank staff for good work, the Ford Motor Company devised a system of rewards, graduated according to rank. Managers got champagne, foremen & supervisors got cigars, and shop-floor workers got two free cups of tea.

Wow, must have been awesome! :roll:

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16 Apr 2007, 9:18 am

Emperor Menelik II, who ruled Ethiopia directly before Haile Selassie, used an electric chair as his throne. There was no electricity in Ethiopia (then Abyssinia), so the chair wasn't operable as an execution method.

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16 Apr 2007, 9:44 am

nutbag wrote:

Actually the electric chair was an Edison invention, the purpose was to demonstrate the inherant danger of Tesla's alternating current.

Edison was a nasty person and unworthy of respect.

Westinghouse was the big proponent of AC that Edison was trying to discredit. then of course AC became standard, ha ha Edison.

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16 Apr 2007, 9:47 am

T-rav20 wrote:

nutbag wrote:

Actually the electric chair was an Edison invention, the purpose was to demonstrate the inherent danger of Tesla's alternating current.

Edison was a nasty person and unworthy of respect.

Westinghouse was the big proponent of AC that Edison was trying to discredit. then of course AC became standard, ha ha Edison.

Of course, most electronics convert the AC back to DC for use...

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16 Apr 2007, 9:51 am

Jameson wrote:

T-rav20 wrote:

nutbag wrote:

Actually the electric chair was an Edison invention, the purpose was to demonstrate the inherent danger of Tesla's alternating current.

Edison was a nasty person and unworthy of respect.

Westinghouse was the big proponent of AC that Edison was trying to discredit. then of course AC became standard, ha ha Edison.

Of course, most electronics convert the AC back to DC for use...

*shrug* Hey, you can have your cake and eat it too!

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16 Apr 2007, 9:56 am

I can't think of anyone no one has already thought of... and in that statement, I just did.

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16 Apr 2007, 10:52 am

I'm waiting for the drugstore to open, so I could get my prescriptions refilled.

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16 Apr 2007, 11:13 am

By 1927, the Communist Party of the USSR contained 12% women, an increase of 7.8% in 1922

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