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From: sue@beep.UUCP (Sue D. Nimh)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: What happenned to the watches?
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Date: 8 Feb 89 20:45:13 GMT
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In article <35619@bbn.COM>, mthome@bbn.com (Mike Thome) writes:
=> The only other good (& also true) microwave story I know is:
=> 	The Amazing Randi, in his Big Sting of the Psychic Researchers
=> Operation had two young unknown magicians pose as psychics to be
=> researched... one of the feats of mentalist powers they were asked to
=> demonstrate was "to do something" to a pair of digital watches. Well,
=> they stared and kneeded the watched without effect until lunch, when they
=> palmed 'em and nuked 'em for a minute on high.  After lunch the
=> researchers were astounded!

     What happened to the watches?  Did they run faster from the magnetic
fields?

     I found out something rather disturbing about microwave ovens a
couple of years ago.  I had opened a bottle of Ocean Spray Juice and
without thinking about it, dropped the cap on top of our microwave
oven, a Sears model from approx 1970.  The cap stood ON EDGE at about
a 60 degree angle from the surface.  And to think that I thought
"This is a convenient place to set my tapes"!

     [Un]fortunately, our new microwave does not show this behavior.

-- 
						Sue D. Nimh

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