Not really efi ..........

[Clare Snyder]

Excellent!!, but Winipeg (or windy-peg, or Winterpeg) is in Manitoba, not
Ontario.


>Hi all
>
>Nothing to do with efi .....but I had to share this with you all.
>
>This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, Ontario about a repair
>call he handled while living in England.  It's common practice in England
>to ring a telephone by signaling extra voltage across one side of the two
>wire circuit and ground (earth in England).  When the subscriber answers
>the phone, it switches to the two wire circuit for the conversation. his
>method allows two parties on the same line to be signaled without
>disturbing each other.  Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to
>say that her telephone often failed to ring when her friends called; and
>that on the few occasions when it did ring her dog always barked first.
>Pat proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.  He climbed a
>nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialled the subscriber's
>house.  The phone didn't ring.  He tried again.  The dog barked loudly,
>followed by a ringing telephone.  Climbing down from the pole, Pat found:
>
>a. The telephone system's ground was disconnected from the ground post and
>used to restrain the dog via an iron chain and collar.
>b. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current.
>c. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating on
>the ground. 
>d. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.
>
>
>Unfortunate but very funny =-)
>
>Cheers
>
>Simon
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>  Computer Technician, Silicon Graphics & Windows NT Support
>  Centre for Computing and Biometrics
>  LINCOLN UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND
>  Phone (64)(03) 3252811 Ext. 8087
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>Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. 
>But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
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