My American housemate was a series of QOTWs in himself
...but his piece de resistance was when he accidentally broke a bulb off in his light socket. He'd heard the best way to remove it was to take half a raw potato, stick it onto the protruding bits and twist it out that way. We didn't have a potato, but he tried with half an onion. It didn't work, so naturally he turned to plan B and fetched the Ikea toolkit. He took the pliers out, jammed them into the live light socket and twisted...

He was saved by the rubber handles of the pliers, but managed to take out the elecricity for the entire building and it was a good hour before he could see wthout blue flashes in his eyes. Did I mention he graduated from Harvard? Lectured there for a year in robotics? Spent an entire year studying electronics? Melted the metal ends of the pliers?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Sun 15 Feb 2009, 12:04, Reply)