BS: Does your fridge light go out when...

Subject: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Bobert
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 08:04 PM

...you close the door???

Just wonderin'...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Frug
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 08:10 PM

No Bobert, I keep it on so I don't spill the beer when I'm reading my book.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 08:11 PM

Sure... I put the kid in there when he was 3...he said it did...

;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 08:22 PM

Of course it does. And it comes on when the door is opened because Yahooty turns it on and off. That's his job. And, he also reports who opens and closes the door to my old man so I'll get my ass kicked if I mess with the fridge.

gary, 5

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 09:15 PM

Your fridge has a light?   We were so poor as kids ours had a candle in it

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 09:23 PM

Well, yes and no. You see, it either does or it doesn't. So when you close the door (assuming that the light is on when it's open and everything is working correctly and the fridge is plugged in, etc.) the status of the light is indeterminate.

Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
At last,I've found you.
Ah! At last I know the secret of it all.
For the longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning,
The burning hopes,
The joy and idle tears that fall.

You see, it's kind of like putting a cat in a box with a chunk of cat-killing radioactive stuff and then closing the lid. You don't know if the cat is alive or dead.

There are so many things like this. Will your tractor start? Does you chewing lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight? Can you ever know? And if you did know, how would you know that you know?

This question goes straight to the heart of existence, for how can you know that you exist? And if you don't exist, how do you know and what do you have to compare it to?

Send the answers, with a box top and twenty-five US cents to cover postage and handling, to J-P. Sartre, c/o Cafe Rien, Montemartre, Paris.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 09:28 PM

"for how can you know that you exist? "

Yahooty. I seen him operate the fridge lights.

C'mon man.... what more proof does one need?

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 10:05 PM

isn't yahooty the guy that makes that chocolate soda pop stuff? I get so easily confused

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 10:27 PM

"Yahoo!" is the chocolate drink,
And not Swift's savages, I think
Yahooty's turns off your fridge's light
You bet your patootie Gnu got that one right!

Seriously, could this guy be shutting off meself's computer? Maybe he got locked out and got confused.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: ranger1
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 10:39 PM

I don't know about the fridge light, but our kitchen lights were going out when J-boy opened the fridge for a few days...

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 10:49 PM

My young niece caught her nose in the door while trying to ascertain this very question.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 11:06 PM

It does, else it was a very coincidental burnt out bulb. I don't know how many people are aware, but once the fridge door closes yer laptop acts funny and I think the signal gets significantly weaker.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 12 - 11:21 PM

"the signal gets significantly weaker"

Every day. Or so it seems.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 02:24 AM

No. It hasn't had a single date since we bought the refrigerator.....

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: DMcG
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 04:38 AM

My camera has a self time so I set it counting down and put it in the fridge. I can confirm the light was off ... that time ... if the camera worked ...

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 04:45 AM

My refrigerator light goes off a fraction of a second before the door closes.
But does it stay off? No. It comes back on every time I reopen the door.
(:-( 0)=

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 05:05 AM

Our blasted shower turns itself off halfway through, usually when you're covered in suds. It throws the trip switch. Plumber and electrician coming Wed (should cost an arm and a leg for 2 tradesmen!)
Sorry about thread drift, but I'm v wound up, 'cos the fusebox is outside in the garage. Interesting for the neighbours!

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 06:41 AM

Oh, are they called 'fridges'? Chuck Berry taught everyone my age that they're called 'coolerators'.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 08:56 AM

The light in my fridge did stay on. The door had dropped ever so slightly so that it no longer pressed on the 'off switch'. The heat of the bulb melted the plastic surrounding it. In the end I just removed the bulb and no longer have a light in the fridge.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 11:40 AM

Regarding a short name for a refrigerator: I suspect that 'fridge' came into popular usage when the company Frigidaire came on the scene. Before that, believe it or not, it was often called the 'reefer'.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 11:51 AM

It must be be weird being Chuck Berry's friend if you're a woman. You know he's seen you on the toilet.

Imagine the conversation, 'You still doing that thing...?'

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 12:18 PM

Creepy. Filming women and girls on the crapper.Ewwwwwww!!!!!
(:-( O)=

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 12:21 PM

Crews who set up banks of refrigeration equipment for large events also use the term 'reefers'. It seems to be an easier plural generic.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 18 Aug 12 - 01:19 PM

I used to keep my reefer in the freezer.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 12:52 AM

"Does your fridge light go out when......you close the door???


well who'da thought one of the very first rock'n'roll 78rpm records
my parents played me when I was an infant
would provide the answer.......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bs21_EprWM

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 05:50 AM

In an attempt to answer the fridge light question, I opened the door, tossed Schrödinger's cat into the fridge, and closed the door. Now, I not only don't know if the fridge light is on or off, but I don't know if the cat is alive or dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 07:42 AM

Does nobody remember the god-awful Tommy Steele 'novelty' song 'I Puts the Lightie On' from the 1950s? - brrr - makes me shidder to think of it
http://www.youtube.com/artist/tommy_steele
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 04:14 PM

You had 78 rpm DISKS? We were so behind the times that when I was young rock 'n' roll meant pounding a piece of a bread-like substance with a chunk of granite. We did move up to wax cylinders by the middle '70s, though (hand-cranked, they were). You ever been at a party and someone says, "Go hand-crank yer cylinder!"?

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 05:40 PM

Rap... yer just jerkin us around.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 05:54 PM

Speaking of reefer this thread is shedding new light on "reefer madness"...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 06:20 PM

I feel your pain, Jim.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 08:21 PM

What's not on you Tube, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 08:34 PM

"This video contains content from UMG and IODA. It is not available in your country.
Sorry about that."

errrmmm... the link I posted earlier is not restricted and is confirmed to actually work for UK viewers..


enjoy....

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Mooh
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 06:07 AM

Does my fridge light go out when I close the door?

No, it stays in.

What a silly question.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 05:18 PM

Bobert, if you have a camera with a delay and flash you will be amazed at what you will find.

I have a picture of cochroaches in little coats having what appears to be a political convention.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 06:08 PM

Republicans I assume.

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: beeliner
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 01:02 AM

Bob and Ray (Bob Elliot and the late Ray Goulding) did an hilarious schtick on this topic.

Reporter Wally Ballou (who always started talking before his mike was turned on) visited the City Control Center (or some such name) and an employee showed him around - it started something like this:

"See that panel light that just turned on? That means that a lady over on Third Street just opened her refrigerator door. I have to turn on her refrigerator's light!"

Ballou: "Gee, I always thought that the light turned on automatically!"

"You probably believe in elves ard fairies too!"

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 03:51 AM

"I feel your pain, Jim."
Not forgetting that Tommy Steele was at the cutting edge of popular music at the time - no wonder we all turned out the way we have!
Slightly off-topic
Does anybody find the recent television ads for frozen food with the 'Godfather' type bear in the fridge or the midget cowboy with the giant cut-throat razor as spooky as I do....... wieeeeerd, or what?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 04:57 AM

Ooooh yes, Jim, I do! Very sinister, the stuff of nightmares even. Whatever possessed them to dream up things like that? The bear is a stereotype stalker if ever there was one. And the cowboy scares me stiff. The adverts get stranger (or I'm just getting too old for this weird world of ours!)

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 07:15 AM

A more puzzling question remains "does the little light go out when a clam closes its shell?"

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 06:13 PM

Clams got legs!

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 12:25 PM

Then there was the man who sat up all night wondering where the sun went.




Finally, it dawned on him!

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 12:31 PM

"You see, it's kind of like putting a cat in a box with a chunk of cat-killing radioactive stuff and then closing the lid. You don't know if the cat is alive or dead."

No, when the box is closed the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. When the box is opened 'the wave function collapses' (or something) and the cat is either alive or dead ... I think ... ?

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 04:21 PM

(thread drift) Rejoice with me! The shower has been replaced and no longer will I have to get to the fusebox in the garage outside, covered in suds, to put the trip-switch back on! That cost me £50 for the new shower and £50 each for the plumber & electrician. It's costly to keep clean isn't it?!

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 04:33 PM

Must stink at yer place. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 05:11 PM

""Clams got legs!""

Well, they certainly have a foot. So, maybe they have a leg?

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 05:16 PM

But they don't have eyes so they really don't care one way or another if the light is on of off...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Does your fridge light go out when...
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 08:22 PM

Maybe no eyes but they got Hart, Johnny. >;-)