My grandfather - now dead 28 years - and I used to coil up laughing to this.
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Ladies and gentlemen.. For your pleasure and edification, allow me to present... The singing Tesla coils!
Rick Simer, 64 suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Tuesday, August 9 while working at KBP Coil Coaters. The Denver Post reports:
I end up buying a lot of weird things for my lab-- really expensive sand, for example-- but the latest purchase was a little strange even by my usual standards:
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When I was a kid in the late 1940s my dad bought that on a 78 rpm record. My mother finally got so disgusted with hearing it over and over and over that she gave the record to my uncle, who thereafter drove his wife (my mother's sister) bats with it. Thanks for posting it. :)
Another Abbott and Costello classic is "Susquahanna Hat Company."
The late seventies sit-com "One Day at a Time" did a nice homage to this with a routine about the mother quizzing her daughter about going to concert where Yes, Who, and The Band will be playing. I'm sure you can figure out how it went.