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HUMOR: Electro Commandments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon Aug 28 11:10:12 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 11:07:42 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:03:42 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
From: katyking@MIT.EDU
The following is part of the "Electro Commandments" from the Safety Division
of Rockwell International (c. 1979).
Aimed more at technicans and people who work with electricity
The Electro Commandments (partial list)
1. Beware the lighting that lurketh in a charged condenser lest it cause thee
to bounce upon thy buttocks in a most unworkman like manner.
2. Cause thou the switch that supplieth large quantities of juice to be opened
and thusly tagged that thy days may be long in this earthly vale of tears.
3. Tarry not among those fools that engage in intentional shocks. They are
surely non-believers and are not long for this world.
4. Take care thou useth the proper method when thou taketh measure of a high
voltage circuit so that thou dost not incinerate both thee and thy test
meter. For verily, though thou hast no account number and can easily be
written off, the test meter doth have one and as a consequence bringeth woe
unto thy supervisor.
5. Work thou not on energized equipment for if thou so doest thy mates will
surely be buying beers for thy widow and consoling her in certain other ways
not generally acceptable to thee.
6. Trifle not with radioactive tubes and substances lest thou commence to
glow in the dark like a lightning bug and thy wife be frustrated nightly
and have no further use for thee except for thy wages.
