Senan Molony
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Senan Molony
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It's just that you are always going to need an official expedition artist-in-residence to capture those arresting on-site images.
Then there will have to be a gentleman from the Electric Historical Society, to verify that the bulb is indeed electric (rather than, for instance, a daffodil bulb - as speculated by that gardening chappie)...
The EHS will then engage this artist to provide "concept" drawings of what it will look like when the bulb is put on permanent display in a purpose-built museum of great cost, to be located on the fringe of a native-American clump of fruit trees in the Massachusetts interior.
Then there will have to be a gentleman from the Electric Historical Society, to verify that the bulb is indeed electric (rather than, for instance, a daffodil bulb - as speculated by that gardening chappie)...
The EHS will then engage this artist to provide "concept" drawings of what it will look like when the bulb is put on permanent display in a purpose-built museum of great cost, to be located on the fringe of a native-American clump of fruit trees in the Massachusetts interior.
Bob Godfrey
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Meanwhile 400 copies of the bulb, each claimed to be the original, will be offered for sale on Ebay.
david wilson
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Now I know who's idea it was for the irish to name their monetary system to rhyme with bank manager!
Senan Molony
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Dave,
We have since amalgamated them so that we now have Euro-de-Change.
You're right. We'll need a bank manager.
We will also need a microbiologist to analyse the particles that have floated down and formed an extensive <font color="808080">DUST FIELD on the coffee table following the inescapable disturbance of the lampshade...
We have since amalgamated them so that we now have Euro-de-Change.
You're right. We'll need a bank manager.
We will also need a microbiologist to analyse the particles that have floated down and formed an extensive <font color="808080">DUST FIELD on the coffee table following the inescapable disturbance of the lampshade...
Kyrila Scully
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Senan that was a riot! Because it's all so true! Very funny stuff, mate.
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Inger Sheil
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What about the CG graphics of the bulb in its glory days, slowed down when we get to the actual moment of bulb-blow out? Soundtrack can either be mournful, portentious, or bodhrans and penny whistles.
Some footage of reinactors going about their daily lives under the bulb wouldn't go astray. Perhaps even a bulb-illuminated party with people dancing on tables with a bit of historically accurate music playing (ABBA or Gloria Gaynor would do).
I'd also add some alternative theories of counter-light switching to see if these could have prevented the bulb blowing out, or if these could have slowed the blow out. A few researchers would of course come out to question whether the canonical interpretation of the moment the bulb-fused needs revision and a fresh interpretation.
I'm glad to see that you and the Sauders will be on hand to put the loss of this bulb in its historical and socio-economic context. I could also offer up my list of the original punch-card hours for the men who created the bulb. Perhaps Jeff and Mark would allow some material from www.greatlights.com to be utilised?
Some footage of reinactors going about their daily lives under the bulb wouldn't go astray. Perhaps even a bulb-illuminated party with people dancing on tables with a bit of historically accurate music playing (ABBA or Gloria Gaynor would do).
I'd also add some alternative theories of counter-light switching to see if these could have prevented the bulb blowing out, or if these could have slowed the blow out. A few researchers would of course come out to question whether the canonical interpretation of the moment the bulb-fused needs revision and a fresh interpretation.
I'm glad to see that you and the Sauders will be on hand to put the loss of this bulb in its historical and socio-economic context. I could also offer up my list of the original punch-card hours for the men who created the bulb. Perhaps Jeff and Mark would allow some material from www.greatlights.com to be utilised?
monica e. hall
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" Perhaps even a bulb-illuminated party with people dancing on tables with a bit of historically accurate music playing (ABBA or Gloria Gaynor would do). "
Lord, Inger. I could do this bit probably. Though nobody over 45 should dance. Or even, perhaps, 35.
Lord, Inger. I could do this bit probably. Though nobody over 45 should dance. Or even, perhaps, 35.
Bob Godfrey
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You're all missing the point. It was only the 1st Class households that got all the attention. We never hear about the 3rd Class households, where they couldn't afford electric light. Think of those poor devils when the candle burned out, whole families struggling in the darkness to find the exits, abandoned and forgotten while their wealthy neighbours were guided into the light by the officers and stewards of the public utility companies. Even as we speak, Jan Nielsen is probably writing an article about the injustice of it all.
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Inger Sheil
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You're a polemecist, Bob! Second-class households are the truly neglected strata in all this. How is it that we never hear about the tragic sacrifice of beaded lampshades? It's because they're not chandeliers OR naked bulbs.
[Monica, you're never too old for a good tabledance - of this, I remain firmly convinced. I'll be getting up there when they've replaced my hips with titanium]
[Monica, you're never too old for a good tabledance - of this, I remain firmly convinced. I'll be getting up there when they've replaced my hips with titanium]
Matthew Lips
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That'll teach me to watch Sky News...
Fortunately, neither 1997 nor "never" are two of the alternative answers on offer. That should eliminate those who think Titanic was a figment of Cameron's imagination (although Jack and Rose were real people of course), and the Gardiner Fan Club, respectively. I hope.
Maybe the competition should have asked what the iceberg was made of? It wouldn't, after all, be the first time that that question was asked...
Fortunately, neither 1997 nor "never" are two of the alternative answers on offer. That should eliminate those who think Titanic was a figment of Cameron's imagination (although Jack and Rose were real people of course), and the Gardiner Fan Club, respectively. I hope.
Maybe the competition should have asked what the iceberg was made of? It wouldn't, after all, be the first time that that question was asked...
Senan Molony
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Senan Molony
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Has anyone considered whether the bulb might have been operating at too high a wattage for the prevailing current?
Bob Godfrey
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Too high by whose judgment? Electricians had been operating at that wattage in those conditions for decades, without ill effect. And householders demanded it of them, thinking only of immediate luminary gratification and not of the consequences nor even of the possibility of disastrous failure. In the subsequent hearings, of course, the utility company and the bulb manufacturers were declared blameless. As 2nd Electrician Lightoller (who else) put it: "There was a combination of circumstances that night that could not be predicted. Everything was against us".
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Senan Molony
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Perhaps, Bob.
But I am still not convinced by the argument that they could not tell the bulb was out because it was so dark.
And I cannot agree with those Anti-Luminates who would instead blame another householder at the top of the street for failing to notice the absence of light that was thrown out by the house in question over a long period.
No, let us instead cast light in another direction - in this specific case into the bin.
But I am still not convinced by the argument that they could not tell the bulb was out because it was so dark.
And I cannot agree with those Anti-Luminates who would instead blame another householder at the top of the street for failing to notice the absence of light that was thrown out by the house in question over a long period.
No, let us instead cast light in another direction - in this specific case into the bin.
