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The Flying McCoys by Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy for December 29, 2015
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December 30, 2015
Transcript:
The power's out, so we're going to try static electricity.
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When I was designing phones for a PBX, the worst case scenario depicted (whether true or not) was, “A fat woman in Minnesota in the middle of winter can build up to 30,000 volts of static.” I think it had to do with very dry air and a more even layer of adipose tissue. We had to design for that eventuality to keep from frying the IC’s inside the phones.