why are they called wall warts?

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Eric R Snow

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The subject says it all. Anybody know?
Thanks,
Eric
 
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:24:40 -0700, Eric R Snow <etpm@whidbey.com>
wrote:

The subject says it all. Anybody know?
---
Like a wart is a protuberance on your skin, a wall wart is a
protuberance from a wall.

--
John Fields
 
In article <mda2h05l6ah75u8453otsofgg41hejqmll@4ax.com>,
Eric R Snow <etpm@whidbey.com> wrote:

The subject says it all. Anybody know?
Thanks,
Eric
Warts are (usually) ugly little things hanging off your flesh.

Wall warts are (usually) ugly little things hanging off your wall.

You do the math...

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On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:24:40 -0700, Eric R Snow wrote:

The subject says it all. Anybody know?
Thanks,
Eric
Here comes the run on sentence of the month, courtesy Active8 :)

Because that way, when you go to Radio Shack and ask for a wall wart
and the sales puke doesn't know WTF you're talking about, and you
show him, he'll insist it's whatever *they* call it, and then you'll
know what you're dealing with at RS.

Then you go to the computers and type in one of their names as the
password to log on, and change the password >:)
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:25:32 -0400, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net>
wrote:

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:24:40 -0700, Eric R Snow wrote:

The subject says it all. Anybody know?
Thanks,
Eric

Here comes the run on sentence of the month, courtesy Active8 :)

Because that way, when you go to Radio Shack and ask for a wall wart
and the sales puke doesn't know WTF you're talking about, and you
show him, he'll insist it's whatever *they* call it, and then you'll
know what you're dealing with at RS.

Then you go to the computers and type in one of their names as the
password to log on, and change the password >:)
Remember how RS used to ask for your name and address for even the
smallest purchase? A friend of mine was buying a small part and the
salesman asked the usual and my friend refused. The salesman was
persistent so after being asked several times my friend relented said
his first name was "YO". The salesman wrote that down and then my
friend said his last name was "MAMA". The salesman finally took his
money.
ERS
 
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:07:04 -0500, John Fields
<jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:24:40 -0700, Eric R Snow <etpm@whidbey.com
wrote:

The subject says it all. Anybody know?

---
Like a wart is a protuberance on your skin, a wall wart is a
protuberance from a wall.
DUH! Thank You.
ERS
 
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 17:17:29 -0700, Eric R Snow wrote:

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:25:32 -0400, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote:

On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:24:40 -0700, Eric R Snow wrote:

The subject says it all. Anybody know?
Thanks,
Eric

Here comes the run on sentence of the month, courtesy Active8 :)

Because that way, when you go to Radio Shack and ask for a wall wart
and the sales puke doesn't know WTF you're talking about, and you
show him, he'll insist it's whatever *they* call it, and then you'll
know what you're dealing with at RS.

Then you go to the computers and type in one of their names as the
password to log on, and change the password >:)
Remember how RS used to
They still do in many cases. I think some of them got tired of it
and just skip it.

ask for your name and address for even the
smallest purchase? A friend of mine was buying a small part and the
salesman asked the usual and my friend refused. The salesman was
persistent so after being asked several times my friend relented said
his first name was "YO". The salesman wrote that down and then my
friend said his last name was "MAMA". The salesman finally took his
money.
ERS
I got tire of that. I found out all the sales dweeb has to do (at
that time, but they still can and don't even argue with me) is hit
the esc key and that gets him out of the junk mail screen.
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
Let me also suggest the term "cord wart" for the kind that is a box midway
along a cord...
 
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:56:16 -0400, "Michael A. Covington"
<look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

Let me also suggest the term "cord wart" for the kind that is a box midway
along a cord...
---
"Cord aneurism"?^)

--
John Fields
 
In article <mda2h05l6ah75u8453otsofgg41hejqmll@4ax.com>,
etpm@whidbey.com says...
The subject says it all. Anybody know?
The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?

--
Keith
 
krw wrote:
The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?
Whazzat? An Asian knock-off of a Wahl wart?

--
John Miller
Sterling, IL

After your lover has gone you will still have PEANUT BUTTER!
 
In article <cf0kak$cm4$1@n4vu.com>, me@privacy.net says...
krw wrote:

The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?

Whazzat? An Asian knock-off of a Wahl wart?
No, I can't tpye.

--
Keith
 
"John Miller" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:cf0kak$cm4$1@n4vu.com...
krw wrote:

The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?

Whazzat? An Asian knock-off of a Wahl wart?
"Whal" -- From the same fine folks that gave you "Wein bridge"! :)
 
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:06:51 -0400, krw wrote:

In article <cf0kak$cm4$1@n4vu.com>, me@privacy.net says...
krw wrote:

The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?

Whazzat? An Asian knock-off of a Wahl wart?

No, I can't tpye.
You think typing's bad, just try stereotyping sometime.
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
"Active8" <reply2group@ndbbm.net> wrote in message
news:941w7c39ap1c$.dlg@news.individual.net...

You think typing's bad, just try stereotyping sometime.
Oh, stereotyping is easy. Mine's a Kenwood.

Bob M.
 
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 22:53:12 GMT, Bob Myers wrote:

"Active8" <reply2group@ndbbm.net> wrote in message
news:941w7c39ap1c$.dlg@news.individual.net...

You think typing's bad, just try stereotyping sometime.

Oh, stereotyping is easy. Mine's a Kenwood.

Bob M.
No. Stereotyping is what the bad guy in "Under Siege II - The Dark
Teritory" did to enter the passwords simultaneously.
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
Michael A. Covington wrote:

"John Miller" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:cf0kak$cm4$1@n4vu.com...
krw wrote:

The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?

Whazzat? An Asian knock-off of a Wahl wart?

"Whal" -- From the same fine folks that gave you "Wein bridge"! :)
Some purported unicorn horns are actually narwhal tusk. :)

Cheers!
Rich
 
krw wrote:

In article <cf0kak$cm4$1@n4vu.com>, me@privacy.net says...
krw wrote:

The charger for my beard trimmer is a Whal wart. ...is it Friday yet?

Whazzat? An Asian knock-off of a Wahl wart?

No, I can't tpye.

From "The Best Cartoons From Punch" ca. 1955:

Man at typewriter repair shop, to shopkeeper:
"Pvpry timp I strikp thp lpttpr "p", I gpt an "e".


Cheers!
Rich
 

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