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Check out this New Yorker cartoon from 1933
Topic Started: Sep 22 2014, 02:19 PM (156 Views)
jon-nyc
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Since lighting was the original use of electrification in homes, early electric appliances connected to light fixtures, since they couldn't assume that there were wall outlets in place. I'm not sure when that changed, but it is interesting they made fun of that here.

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In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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jon-nyc
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Some examples from this site:

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Below, a bedroom in the whitehouse:

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In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Aqua Letifer
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Interestin'.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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brenda
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jon-nyc
Sep 22 2014, 02:28 PM
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My grandparents had a toaster like that until the late 1960s. I remember using it when I stayed with them at the farm during the summer. You had to flip the bread to toast both sides. Grandpa said it wasn't done unless it had some black char marks.

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~A.A. Milne
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
When I worked on a seismograph crew travelling around the country we would often pull into a rest area, unscrew the light bulb in a restroom and party down.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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