It's invisble and it kills you
1. As a child of perhaps 8 or 9 I placed an ice cube on top of a table lamp light bulb to see how quickly it would melt. Cue immediate housewide darkness.

2. By the time I had reached about 15 I reckoned I had got the measure of this electrickery caper and decided I was confident in my ability to re-wire a plug onto a soldering bolt. I wasn't 100% sure though if the blue wire went to the left or the right so I did what I thought was right and plugged it in to see if the soldering iron began to heat up.

In the event I had guessed correctly. Unfortunately though I had omitted to replace the plug cap on the basis that I might have to take it back off again immediately had my guess been wrong. I then tried to pull out the plug to finish the job whilst congratulating myself on my electricianship ... but of course didn't switch off the power first. Cue once again immediate housewide darkness but this accompanied by me being thrown across the room with what felt like a hard kick from a bull elephant.
( Ramsay Tupper, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 12:02, Reply)