[765] in Humor
HUMOR: Welcome to the 20th Century
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Mar 14 16:56:02 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 16:49:35 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:23:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Why don't we have a "Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents"?
Forwarded-by: Henry Cate III <cate3@netcom.com>
Forwarded-by: ross@harpo.qcktrn.com (Gary Ross)
Subject: The British plug in
>From the San Jose Mercury News, 2/2/92
Britain has just announced that makers of electrical appliances
in that country must begin attaching plugs to the ends of electrical
cords.
Britons, for we don't know how long, have been required to buy
plugs and attach them to their new toasters, irons and electrical
what have yous.
But now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, citing
its research into the matter, says it was surprised to learn that "it
is common practice everywhere else in the world to sell electrical goods
with a plug attached."
