"Most American homes have alternating current, which means……" — Dave Barry
"Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires."
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508 Quotes by Dave Barry
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management…
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self,…
— Arthur E. Powell
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
— James Surowiecki
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History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.
— Unknown Author
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I do abs every day: regular, weighted crunches and sit-ups every other day, then my obliques and my sides on…
— Christopher Gorham
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating…
— Brenda Ueland
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The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze,…
— Marianne Moore
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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved…
— William Styron
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous .…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being…
— William Ewart Napier
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
— Henry James
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