[R-390] a small point re Bristo

[2002tii]

Tim wrote:

>Where I work all the power techs call "bus bars"
>incorrectly, they call them "buzz bars", but 99% of them have never
>worked outside the company and all the internal training materials call
>them "buzz bars" after decades of inbreeding so they don't know any
>better. I would guess the military trained techs worked the same way
>with respect to Bristo vs Bristol.

Reminds me of a story that explains much about the dangers of 
"received wisdom":

A scientist put a bunch of apes in a cage, hung a large bunch of 
bananas from the top of the cage, and put a ladder under the 
bananas.  Every time an ape would start up the ladder, a mechanism 
would sense weight on the ladder and spray the whole cage with cold 
water.  Before long, any time an ape even looked like it was heading 
for the ladder, all the other apes would gang up and beat the crap 
out of it.  The scientist then turned the spray mechanism off and 
began replacing the apes one by one with apes that had been raised 
elsewhere.  Each new ape would try to climb the ladder, and would get 
mauled by the others until it learned not to do that.  Eventually, 
none of the apes in the cage had ever been sprayed with cold 
water.  Still, they ganged up and prevented any of their number from 
climbing the ladder, even though they had no idea why the ladder 
shouldn't be climbed!

Best regards,

Don