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10-05-2025, 11:09 PM
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Re: Optical Cable Worker Electrocuted on the Job
He obviously saw a bright light, and started moving towards it ...
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10-19-2025, 12:09 PM
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Re: Optical Cable Worker Electrocuted on the Job
"Walkin' the mile...walkin' the mile..."
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10-20-2025, 06:47 AM
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Re: Optical Cable Worker Electrocuted on the Job
I am not knowing what that means and I am almost afraid to ask. OK, I'll ask. Hey, Bill, what does that mean?
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10-20-2025, 11:07 AM
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I'm HAPPY to clarify. We had a "Wonder Wiener Cooker" which was an electric machine with a row of 5 electrodes on one side, faced by 5 eletrodes on the opposite side. To make it compact, and also to keep the wieners in position while cooking, you bent them into a semi-circle, pressed one end on one electrical prong, and then bent the other end on the opposite electrical prong. Then you turned the machine on to the desired level of done-ness, you could also baste them if you wanted, but we never bothered with that. We were 8, and the modern miracle of "Wonder Wiener Cooking" was a revelation to us. We were American, we were headed to the moon, and we had B-52 bombers, AND the "WONDER WIENER COOKER". AND "Space Food Sticks" which were playdoh like concoctions that came in various flavors, and they were WHAT THE ASTRONNAUTS ATE IN SPACE! What MORE could you ask for?!?!? We were headed for the 21st century at FULL SPEED AHEAD!!! Unlike the one shown in this post, there was no silly "Safety Cover" on OURS, just totally exposed high voltage electrode prongs. What could go wrong? I never heard of anyone being killed by one of these, but I imagine it happened. But like I said, WHO was going to argue against a "futuristic journey into the future?" Maybe only one of those dreaded communists who might be hiding under our beds! These pre-dated the microwave oven, and they were gone from stores the following year after we got ours. Fortunately, we were blessed with a very indulgent aunt who would buy us anything we wanted. As a nursing professor at Marquette University, she must have shaken her head when we unwrapped this thing, and loaded it the first time. But maybe she figured "Well, there are 4 boys, so if we lose one or two, it's not so bad. Thin the herd!" But from the pic with this post, they must have remained in production for a while. I hate the thought that they might have spread to other countries!  |
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10-20-2025, 12:54 PM
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We got ours around 1977, I remember it gave the wieners a metallic taste.
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10-20-2025, 09:00 PM
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I don't doubt it. They weren't that good. We only used it few times. And you couldn't use it when camping because there was no power out there. You had to cook your wieners the old fashioned way, with "plain hard work", on a hot dog fork over a fire. One of my brothers probably wound up with it when we cleaned out the house when my Mom moved to Arizona to live near me. I would have liked to have had it, just as a memento. But actually it was just more junk to stack up in a closet. So I'm kind of glad one of them DID wind up with it. And I don't think ANY astronauts ever had to eat a "Space Food Stick" which just goes to show you that 8 year olds will eat ANYTHING they see on TV! We even drank "TANG" because the "Astronauts did!" "SUCKERS!!!!" |
