BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 04:15 AM

John.....I understand that Yorkshire Electricity have 5,000,000 hamsters on order and 5,000,000 mini turbines which are run from hamster wheels. I believe they have taken your idea and are about to use it. Did you take out a patent on it?.. If not then I believe that you cannot sue them for your share of the profits.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 04:19 AM

Bastards!, I will soo them!

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 08:50 AM

Watch out for animal rights nutters jOhn. If they get to hear of this they may put more cats in your bin.

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Bernard
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 08:31 PM

Ummm... Trevor Bayliss invented the clockwork radio, BTW - Dyson invented the cyclone vacuum cleaner... (Sir jOhn from Hull's original posting).

Cats land on their feet, don't they? And bread lands butter-side down? So if you strapped a slice of bread butter-side up to a cat's back, then dropped the cat, would it float?

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Naemanson
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 08:35 PM

I wasn't aware that the hamsters had captured electricity or that it neeeded to be freed.

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Bernard
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 10:35 AM

Them thar pesky critters will store anything in their cheek pouches!

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 10:58 PM

there may be another possible approach to this; if you stick two spikes in a potato and put wires on them, you get enough electricity to power a battery watch or small clock. Has anyone tried this with a hamster?...

Subject: Lyr Add: HAMSTER SID (Ed Pickford)
From: s&r
Date: 26 Aug 04 - 05:26 AM

Ed pickford here wrote 'Hamster Sid'

Last night I heard on my TV
how we're going to lose all the energy
The oil and coal are getting low
and the fast reactor is slow

Well I gave a little scream I gave a little cry -
looked like we were all fixin' to die
Then I heard a voice it was my Hamster Sid -
these were the words he said

'You may be human; you are dumb -
there's no need to sit there glum
I turn my wheel all through the night;
that energy could give you light

Cho
So sing a little song for my Hamster Sid
His wheel is connected to the National Grid
He's a dynamo of high degree
He makes electricity

With a Hamster wheel and an elastic band
he makes the pylons sing all over this land
He jumps in his wheel - he says 'Go!'
You should see those electrons flow

He eats seeds from the sunflower flower
He makes Hamster electric power
Good for all ecology
High on ergs and pollution free

Cho
so my furry pal and the food he ate
Saved our world from an awful fate
One day he died - he died well-used
His eyes just closed and his heart it fused

Cho (past tense)

Ed is a wonderful writer - his best known song is probably 'The Oldest Swinger in Town'

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: s&r
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:48 AM

I'll refresh this because I love Ed's songs

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Caroline1984
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 07:04 AM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Bernard
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 10:07 PM

Spooky... Fred Wedlock once recorded 'Oldest Swinger'... and has appeared on a TV series in the UK with Trevor 'Clockwork Radio' Bayliss...

Well I  thought it was spooky, anyway...!

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: s&r
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 04:38 AM

Fred I think recorded 'the oldest swinger' as traditional, but it wasn't. Ed produced his first LP I think with cash from royalties on the oldest swinger.

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 10:30 AM

it would take MORE electricity to produce enough hamster food to fuel their exercise than they would produce by running, thus a net loss in energy. Hamsters may cause the end of civilization as we know it!

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: GUEST,skool kid
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 07:42 PM

havin hamsters power cities is a good idea u can get millions of hamsters in hamster wheels powerin turbines, and u could breed the hamsters usin selective breeding to make a strong, faster super hamster. and yes i am just a kid doin a speech on the matter

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 14 Sep 04 - 03:33 AM

It occurs to me we've got the wrong end of the stick here - we should be thinking about providing free electricity FOR hamsters, to power their little toasters and heating pads and laptop computers and all.

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 11:56 AM

somebody is nicked my idea, i see on news last week that a man invented a mobile phone charger powered by hamsters, this was my idea ages ago, i should of copywrited it,
anyway=i might soo him.

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 08:16 PM

Ah - if you can demonstrate that you put it out in the Public Domain, such as here, prior publication usually destroys any attempt to patent something.

Subject: RE: BS: Free Electricity From Hamsters!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 05 - 08:35 PM

Always good to see hamsters getting the respect they merit.