[Groop] I Grooed-Adventures in Home Improvement
Magnus Lindgren
magnus at netrosys.com
Wed Apr 21 02:24:38 PDT 2010
Nice story Gary!
Cut the red wire. Take the blue pill. I learned this from TV. If there
is no red wire, paint one.
Hope this helps!
/Magnus who still have a happy smile on his face since San Diego Comic
Con :)
Gary Grossmann skrev:
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> Groo Changes a Light Fixture (or How to Turn a 30 Minute Job into a 4
> Hour Job)
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> One day Groo decides to change a ceiling light fixture. Shockingly
> (No pun intended. Well, maybe a little.), he remembers to turn off the
> power to the room. He then takes off the old fixture, which has one
> white wire and one black wire. “I am a good ceiling light fixture
> changer, Rufferto. I will attach the ceiling white wire to the fixture
> white wire and the do the same with the black wires, just as I have
> done in the past.” But Groo is soon confused. His new light fixture
> has two white wires and two black wires. And Groo sees many wires up
> in the little box in the ceiling. There are three black wires and
> three white wires and one of the white wires is attached to two of the
> black wires and it is all very strange to Groo. (Rufferto thought
> bubble: “Groo, why don’t you forget about those other wires and just
> attach the two white wires from the new fixture onto the one white
> wire from the ceiling that the old fixture was attached to and do the
> same with the black wires.”) But Groo says “I do not want to make a
> mistake. I will separate all of the wires from each other and then
> figure which ones go to the new fixture.”
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> Now, of course, Groo is even more hopelessly confused and has no idea
> which wire goes where. He tries to remember how they were hooked
> together before, but when he turns on the power, only half the lights
> on the circuit come on and the ceiling fixture will not turn off! So
> he goes to the hardware store closest to his house and asks the grumpy
> man on duty: “Hey, you hardware store employee person, what should I
> do …” and then explains the situation. The grumpy man tells him to
> put all five white wires together and all five black wires together.
> This sounds strange even to Groo, but the grumpy man is a hardware
> store employee…Fortunately, the house Groo is in has breakers and not
> fuses so there is no harm done when Groo tries to turn the power on
> after doing what the grumpy man suggested.
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> I must now alter the narrative somewhat. Because if this was really
> Groo, the house would have burned down by now and Groo would have
> either pummeled the grumpy man (on purpose) or burned down his
> hardware store (accidently) or both. But to paraphrase that great
> line from “The Princess Bride” unlike Groo, who is completely stupid,
> I am only */mostly/* stupid. I went to Home Depot and was directed to
> Master Electrician Bill, who told me everything I needed to know to
> connect the wires properly while not electrocuting myself or burning
> my house down. So, fortunately, no harm was done other than wasting
> an entire afternoon. The End.
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> Moral: Just because a lot of */your /*wires are disconnected, doesn’t
> mean you should disconnect all of the wires in a light fixture box.
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