Darren New wrote:

> We had a ham radio operator up the street you could hear talking through 
> the electric organ (as in, piano-like musical device) we had. We 
> complained, but managed to convince him it was coming out the light 
> bulbs.  Was very amusing.

Down the road there's a guy with an arial bigger than his house. (It 
even rotates from time to time.) Back when I had that cheap portable 
stereo, I used to be able to hear muted mumblings through the speakers 
while it was plugged in [but not necessarily turned on]. Very annoying. 
Especially annoying when you realise you've actually recorded it on that 
tape you did the other day...

[This is the same stereo that was rated at "20 W", but when we took it 
apart to fix something, we found the speaker drivers were cheap little 
things from Maplin or something. Two had "0.25 W" printed on them, and 
the other two (the bass drivers) had "0.5 W" printed on them.]



Speaking of light bulbs... I recall one time at school, I walked into a 
room, and there was a small group of kids staring at the ceiling. I'm 
like "WTH? Is this the most exciting thing going?" And they're all like 
"no, no, come over here and LISTEN!"

It turns out the light bulb was making a weird sound, like

WAB WAAB WAB WAHAHAHAB WALALALAAAAA WALALL WAAAAB AB WABALALAL...

And then suddenly, as we watched it, the pitch suddenly changed, and the 
light slowly faded to black, and went out, and the noise stopped.

I've seen bulbs pop before, but THAT was just weird!

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