From Risks Digest 25.77
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....87e6ced18469c#

RFI is usually an annoyance but seldom harmful. Here's an exception.
A UPI article of 18 Aug reports:

Andrei Melnikov said his Maytag Magic Chef stove beeps and turn its
broiler
onto the highest setting if his phone, which he has had for about
three
years, receives an incoming call while within two feet of the
appliance,
WABC-TV, New York, reported Tuesday. ... He said the stove is
currently
unplugged and Maytag has agreed to send a repair crew to get to the
bottom
of the problem.

GSM cell phones are noted for causing audible RFI in other receivers
nearby. Looks like some Maytag ranges are equally vulnerable.

[Also reported by David Hollman and by Kevin Connolly, who added,
``Here
in Ireland the electrical regulations require a wall switch to
isolate the
mains supply to a cooker when not in use. It is good advice to use
it.''
PGN]

"zeez" > wrote in message
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> From Risks Digest 25.77
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A guy who did some electrical work for me told me he had installed a $1500
dishwasher in a high-end house that had a carpeted kitchen, and had to
remove the carpet and install tile because the static electricity from feet
on the carpet turned the dishwasher on.

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:42:08 -0400, "cybercat" >
wrote:
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>"zeez" > wrote in message
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>> From Risks Digest 25.77
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>
>A guy who did some electrical work for me told me he had installed a $1500
>dishwasher in a high-end house that had a carpeted kitchen, and had to
>remove the carpet and install tile because the static electricity from feet
>on the carpet turned the dishwasher on.
>
I think a carpeted kitchen is a sure sign nobody cooks in that house.
I often wonder what carpeted bathrooms are supposed to convey...
besides mold.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

sf wrote:

> I think a carpeted kitchen is a sure sign nobody cooks in that house.
> I often wonder what carpeted bathrooms are supposed to convey...
> besides mold.

For a while mine conveyed I despise the tile floor I picked out
that was installed by an incompetent.

Now I just don't look at it.

nancy

cybercat wrote:

> A guy who did some electrical work for me told me he had
> installed a $1500 dishwasher in a high-end house that had
> a carpeted kitchen,

Who puts a carpet in a kitchen? yuk.

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:53:08 -0400, Sum Guy > fired up
random neurons and synapses to opine:

>cybercat wrote:
>
>> A guy who did some electrical work for me told me he had
>> installed a $1500 dishwasher in a high-end house that had
>> a carpeted kitchen,
>
>Who puts a carpet in a kitchen? yuk.

A complete idiot. We bought a house in Syracuse NY years ago that had
that awful indoor/outdoor carpet in the kitchen. When we pulled it up,
prepatory to installing tile, I swear that carpet walked itself out
the door to the rolloff. We actually had to do a light sanding of the
subfloor to get the smell out.

I feel the same way about carpet in bathrooms. Yuk, yuk and bleah!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:53:08 -0400, Sum Guy > fired up
> random neurons and synapses to opine:
>
> >cybercat wrote:
> >
> >> A guy who did some electrical work for me told me he had
> >> installed a $1500 dishwasher in a high-end house that had
> >> a carpeted kitchen,
> >
> >Who puts a carpet in a kitchen? yuk.
>
> A complete idiot. We bought a house in Syracuse NY years ago that had
> that awful indoor/outdoor carpet in the kitchen. When we pulled it up,
> prepatory to installing tile, I swear that carpet walked itself out
> the door to the rolloff. We actually had to do a light sanding of the
> subfloor to get the smell out.
>
> I feel the same way about carpet in bathrooms. Yuk, yuk and bleah!
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I feel that way about wall to wall carpeting period.
Area rugs are SO much easier to really keep clean...

but we've run a threat on that already in the past. <g>

My mom's pulmonologist told me that he felt that WTW carpeting was the
dumbest idea man ever invented.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down."
--Steve Rothstein


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Om wrote:

> My mom's pulmonologist told me that he felt that WTW carpeting was the
> dumbest idea man ever invented.

Given carte blanche with the decorating in Lin's and my house, I'd opt for
painted concrete floors. It's cool underfoot and it can look gorgeous (and
of course you can always put rugs down, too).

www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/interiorfloors has a nice slideshow of
painted flooring.

My vote for "dumbest idea ever" would be cigarettes.

Bob

Then tell the faggot to stop living on the phone like a ****ing 15 year old
girl.

Our hand blender turns the Senseo coffee machine on whenever we use it

Steve
www.lovelycolour.com

zeez wrote: