[Healeys] fridays funnies

[Alan Seigrist]

Patrick -

I don't know if televisions leak oil or electrons, but I have experimented
watching these new fangled things now for 4 decades and I've come convinced
they rot your brain.  Perhaps I need to go back to listening to Edison
cylinders for light entertainment in the evening.

Alan

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Quinn, Patrick <
Patrick.Quinn at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

> G'day
>
> I have said it before how much I loath pedants with their smarmy smiles
> knowing that they are right.
>
> "British did not build televisions" ??????
>
> Perhaps the name of John Logie Baird may not seem familiar. A Scotsman
> who is credited as the inventor of the world's first working television
> system. He transmitted the first TV transmission as early as 1925.
>
> If you're into Sci Fi and have read the novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan
> you will have read about the fascinating concept of early TV
> transmissions of Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics being picked up by
> little green men many years later and realising that we were here.
>
> I suspect that Baird TVs didn't leak oil, but don't know about
> electrons.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia