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  1. gyver

    gyver Rely on yourself not on others.

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    On St Pattys day Catholics are to wear green. Protestants orange.
     
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  2. gyver

    gyver Rely on yourself not on others.

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    Made famous by Jackie Chan. Drunken boxing.
     
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  3. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    An electric eel can produce enough power to run a microwave
     
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  4. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    It would have to be a very small microwave and it could only do it for a split second.
     
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  5. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I wouldn't try to bake a potato but maybe you could nuke a hot dog. I don't know who might even try it unless it were some scenario like in the Tom Hanks movie Castaway where he survived on a tropical island following the crash of a FedEx plane by using the items that washed up. Maybe if a microwave washed ashore and it was in a place where you could catch electric eels.
     
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  6. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Where would you connect the lead and the ground Mr. Little known facts?
     
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  7. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Hey, I'm not an electrician. I'd have to use trained eels
     
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  8. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    A small microwave uses around 500-600 watts. IF an electric eel generated A/C instead of D/C, it would be able to generate 500 watts for about 1/4 of a second. No, you couldn't cook anything with it.
     
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  9. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    All I know is that I saw it in Believe it or Not. That makes it true, right?

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  10. LSUDad

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    FYI:

     
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