[ARC5] "I Hates Meeces Tuh Pieces!..."

[Michael Clarson]

Tim: Sylvester was the "Thufferin Thuckatash " Loony Toons cat. "Hates them
meeces to pieces" was the Hanna Barbara cat, Mr. Jinx, and the mice were
Pixie and Dixie. I knew the cats, but had to look up the names of the mice.
--73, Mike, WV2ZOW

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pretty sure it was Sylvester the Cat.  "I hates them meeses ta pieces"....
>
> Tim
> N6CC
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Chris Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> What cartoon character said that anyway?  Tom from Tom and Jerry?
>>
>> We have a pots lamp in the garden with an outlet box about 18 inches
>> above grade. Usually keep the circuit off during the winter.  Last spring
>> when I tried to turn it in the GFCI in the circuit tripped.  Ant nest in
>> the outlet box.  Gross!
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2016, at 21:57, Dennis Monticelli <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> OK.  My turn.
>>
>> Back when I was a 15 yr old novice my antenna was a low 40M dipole.  A
>> large blue jay liked to crap on my center insulator making a mess of it.
>> One day I noticed the jay sitting astride the insulator, one foot on each
>> leg of the dipole.  I ran inside turned on my Viking II, loaded it to full
>> suds on a dummy load, switched it over to the dipole, and then pounded down
>> on my navy key.  I heard a single loud blood-curdling squawk and then
>> silence.  Did the jay fly away?  I couldn't see from my window.  I ran back
>> outside and found him hanging under the insulator, both feet still gripping
>> the wires, with feathers orthogonal to his body. Such a satisfying sight :-)
>>
>> Dennis AE6C
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
>> kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Mar 2016 at 18:49, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>>>
>>> > The weirdest mouse electrocution I ever saw was in an antique VT
>>> electronic
>>> > organ.This particular design ran all of the Ac and DC voltage
>>> requirements on
>>> > bare bussbars horizontally across the back. The mouse was stuck
>>> perfectly
>>> > vertical to the rails like a third rail electric train electrocution.
>>> he popped
>>> > off pretty easy, though...;)
>>>
>>> In my case, it was a small squirrel or chip-munk. It had gotten into the
>>> main
>>> cage of our mountain-top 25KW TV transmitter, had crawled directly under
>>> the single insulated lead from the center-tap of the HV transformer which
>>> was about 2" from the bottom of the cage, and had received a good jolt
>>> through its skull, killing it instantly.
>>>
>>> We experienced several intermittant shut-downs of the transmitter at odd
>>> times over the next several weeks, and couldn't figure out what was
>>> happening.
>>>
>>> We finally discovered the decomposing corpse which was swelling up as it
>>> decomposed, shorting out the lead, blowing the main breaker, the shot of
>>> HV
>>> would open up the corpse so that it leaked all the gas, then it would do
>>> it
>>> again in a few days.
>>>
>>> Since the cage had a 25 HP blower in it blowing all the heat, and the
>>> stink,
>>> out side, we never suspected it until we just happened to find it after
>>> finally
>>> doing a very diligent search inside the HV cage.
>>>
>>> Ken W7EKB
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