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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>querent<p>\Que"rent\, n. [L. quaerens, p. pr. of quaerere to search for, to inquire.] An inquirer. [Obs.] --Aubrey.<p>Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. <...

Wow!
"querent"!
That's cool.

As far as I know, you don't get any sort of dial tone while the phone is on-hook, so I doubt if this is possible.

I don't know where this 15 years figure comes from.
I have a 1982 data book from General Instruments which contains PICs. They were originally made by GI before Microchip existed.
Anyway, I make that more like 22 years.
Not that Chris Smith will care one way or the other!

Strange this question should come up now, I recently started noticing a new noise from my car (automobile) engine, my mechanic friend couldn't hear anything wrong. Years ago I used to fix arcade video game PCBs, and I remembered that some company (Atari? Midway?) used to sell a "signature analy...

Back in the good old days, when I was young and carefree, I used to think it was a jolly prank to photocopy bank notes (on a black and white machine) then roll them up and drop them into empty brown-glass beer-bottles in bars. Thankfully I'm grown up now. I still think that it's funny, but I can't b...

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr> 16 . What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fish. <hr></blockquote>
???
Isn't that supposed to be "a fsh"?

I think I remember reading somewhere, that for 12V halogen lamps, 10% overvoltage reduces lamp life by 50%, and 10% undervoltage reduces light output by 50%.
On the other hand, I could have just dreamt it (not that my having dreamt it would automatically make it false).

It's not the lemons that provide the energy, it's the dissimilar metal electrodes. The lemon, potato or even saliva just act as the electrolyte.
Sorry, just noticed that this observation has already been made.<p>[ November 01, 2004: Message edited by: John Brown ]</p>