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Clear as Mud
It seems there's a reason why every country, or very nearly so, uses its own electric plug. Problem is, that reason doesn't make a lot of sense. Except that it was really expensive to set this all up, and we all did it when nobody crossed borders all that often, and by the time people started it was all in place, and it's a helluva lot easier to burn out your laptop than it is to rewire a whole f'ing country, so there.
Thing is, I could swear I remember really weird plugs in really old houses back when I was a kid, especially around phones? Anyway, a bit of electronics trivia to brighten your Friday night. 'Cos you're at home just like me, right?
Hello? Oh, I see, I forgot to plug it-#$@$#@%%6
I can think of no time or place where you saw really old plugs in really old places. Of course you would have to define really old. lol
Posted by: Pat J. on October 31, 2009 04:12 PMMy mom bought a house where all the phone jacks, instead of being standard RJ11, were these big round things with four little holes in them. I had to go around replacing them all so her phones would work.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 1, 2009 09:38 PMMaybe it was the phones I'm remembering.
Posted by: scott on November 2, 2009 07:04 AMIt probably was. Tat's dead on about the older phones and what they looked like. Hell, I remember having to hardwire phones in rather than the plug.
Posted by: Ron ap Rhys on November 2, 2009 02:22 PM