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But “How long is a piece of string” has a Zen koan like quality that can be more useful in some instances. A similar answer is “Mu“, meaning “unask the question” where questioner is clearly on the wrong track and needs to …

Publish Date: 07/10/2011 10:42

http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/07/09/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/

How long is a piece of string? « Twitter on Wolves

wolvestweeps.wordpress.com1/11/12

The very smart answer to that question is that a piece of string is twice as long from one end to the middle. I think it would be a fair assessment that most Wolves supporters would like to ask the 2M's “how long is long enough” …

Not sure where the expression, “How long is a piece of string?” comes from, but almost anybody you ask will give you a different answer.

I always thought it was twice half it’s length, but maybe I’m wrong.

So what’s your answer?

Having Fun with Electricity in Honduras | Johnny Vagabond

johnnyvagabond.com11/22/11

Based on a design by Ben Franklin, the heating element is actually built into the shower head. Knowing that the only thing shielding me from certain death is a pair of wire nuts hanging just six inches above the spraying water makes me think “You know, maybe those smelly hippies have the right idea…” Having Fun … Now, if you've been here before you may know that I tend to give anything remotely dangerous the “of Death” suffix, but this thing really was frightening. …

Electric shock from shower – All About Circuits Forum

forum.allaboutcircuits.com12/4/11

I can see now that it is called a shower head heater. And I can see that experts think they are very dangerous. So probably they only use it here because they want hot water, right? And they don't know that it is dangerous, …

I have met many people that told me to turn off the water heater when I take a shower, because if I don’t don’t, they say I that I could get electrocuted.

But if you ask these people to explain how this might happen, they look kind of blank and speechless like a deer that’s been caught by your headlights.

You ask them “Is it possible to spray electricity in water”, and they look pensive and sometimes attempt to explain how it might be done, but I’ve yet to hear a valid explanation, so I don’t think that it’s at all possible.

Can it happen, and if, “yes”, then how?