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From: barad@brand.UUCP (Herb Barad)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Sex Life of an Electron
Message-ID: <141@brand.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 13:25:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  7 13:25:32 1985
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In article <370@genie.UUCP> jimk@genie.UUCP (The Clog Brother) writes:
>I saw a joke about the adventures of Micro Farad and Milli Amp.  Has anyone 
>seen this?  Can someone repost it so that I could save it?  Thanks in advance.

                    "THE SEX LIFE OF AN ELECTRON" 

                         BY A DISTORTED WAVE 


ONE NIGHT WHEN HIS CHARGE WAS PLENTY HIGH, MICRO FARAD DECIDED TO
GET A CUTE LITTLE COIL TO LET HIM DISCHARGE.  HE PICKED UP MILLI AMPS
AND TOOK HER FOR A RIDE ON HIS MEGACYCLE.  THEY RODE ACROSS A WHEAT-
STONE BRIDGE AND STOPPED IN A MAGNETIC FIELD NEAR A SMALL STREAM OF
EDDY CURRENTS.. 

MICRO FARAD. ATTRACTED BY MILLI AMPS CHARACTERISTIC CURVE, SOON HAD
HER AT MINIMUM RESISTANCE AND HER FIELD WAS FULLY CHARGED. HER RIPPLES
WERE PULSATING HEAVILY AND HER CAPACITORS WERE GETTING HOT AND LEAKY.
HE TRIED TO TEST HER SHORT BY PULLING OUT HIS HIGH VOLTAGE PROBE AND 
INSERTING IT IN PARALLEL. HE BEGAN TO SHORT CIRCUIT HER SHUNT. FULLY
EXCITED, MILLI AMPS SAID: MHO! MHO! MHO! 

AT LAST SYNCHRONOUS MOTION WAS TAKING PLACE AROUND THEIR TWO COMPONETS.
HIS TUBE WAS AT MAXIMUM POTENTIAL AND HER COIL WAS VIBRATING DUE TO 
EXCESSIVE CURRENT FLOW. SHE SOON REACHED HER MAXIMUM PEAK, BUT MICRO
FARAD WAS LAGGING BEHIND AND ONLY AFTER SEVERAL TIME CONSTANTS, DID 
SHE FINALLY REACH SATURATION AND THERMONIC EMISSION TOOK PLACE. THE
EXCESSIVE CURRENT IN HER SHUNT HAD HER PRETTY HOT AND MICRO FARAD'S
CAPACITOR WAS RAPIDLY DISCHARGING.

THEY FLUCTUATED ALL NIGHT AT TWO CYCLES PER SECOND, TRYING VARIOUS
CONNECTIONS UNTIL HER MAGNET HAD LOST ALL OF ITS FIELD STRENGTH. FIN-
ALLY MILLI AMPS THEN TRIED SELF INDUCTION. WITH HIS BATTERY FULLY
CHARGED, MICRO FARAD UNABLE TO EXCITE HIS FIELD, SO THEY ENDED
UP REVERSING POLARITY AND BLOWING EACH OTHER'S FUSES.

ENERGY HAS BEEN EXPENDED AND WORK HAS BEEN DONE!



-- 
Herb Barad	[USC - Signal and Image Processing Institute]

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