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Nice story Gary!<br>
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Cut the red wire. Take the blue pill. I learned this from TV. If there
is no red wire, paint one.<br>
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Hope this helps!<br>
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/Magnus who still have a happy smile on his face since San Diego Comic
Con :)<br>
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Gary Grossmann skrev:
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face="Times New Roman" size="3">Groo Changes a Light Fixture (or How
to Turn a 30 Minute Job into a 4 Hour Job) </font></p>
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size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">One day Groo decides to change a
ceiling light fixture.<span style=""> </span>Shockingly (No pun
intended. Well, maybe a little.), he remembers to turn off the power to
the room.<span style=""> </span>He then takes off the old fixture,
which has one white wire and one black wire.<span style=""> </span>“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.”<span style=""> </span>But
Groo is soon confused.<span style=""> </span>His new light fixture
has two white wires and two black wires.<span style=""> </span>And
Groo sees many wires up in the little box in the ceiling.<span style="">
</span>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.<span style=""> </span>(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.”)<span style=""> </span>But Groo says “I do not
want to make a mistake.<span style=""> </span>I will separate all of
the wires from each other and then figure which ones go to the new
fixture.”<span style=""> </span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Now, of course, Groo is even
more hopelessly confused and has no idea which wire goes where.<span
style=""> </span>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!<span style="">
</span>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.<span style=""> </span>The
grumpy man tells him to put all five white wires together and all five
black wires together.<span style=""> </span>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.<span style=""> </span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I must now alter the narrative
somewhat.<span style=""> </span>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.<span style=""> </span>But to paraphrase that
great line from “The Princess Bride” unlike Groo, who is completely
stupid, I am only <b style=""><i style="">mostly</i></b> stupid.<span
style=""> </span>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.<span style=""> </span>So, fortunately, no harm was done other
than wasting an entire afternoon. <span style=""> </span>The End.<span
style=""> </span></font></font></p>
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size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Moral:<span style=""> </span>Just
because a lot of <b style=""><i style="">your </i></b>wires are
disconnected, doesn’t mean you should disconnect all of the wires in a
light fixture box.<span style=""> </span></font></font></p>
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