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Serge Auckland wrote:
Considering that professionally, IEC mains distribution panels are
commonplace, there will be one or more in any equipment rack, I'm
surprised no enterprising Foo-merchant (RA for example?) has thought of
dusting them with fairy-powder, quadrupling the price and selling them
as the latest audiophile accessory....Gold-plated MKs are so last
year....

The sort of person who buys RA products is just about capable of swopping
a mains lead - but not anything more complicated...

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On 08/12/2009 17:39, Serge Auckland wrote:

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Rob wrote:
Came across this on another newsgroup:

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?opt...es-the-uk-plug
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Seems just the thing to at least start to tidy up the plug/socket
proliferation I have - 11 at the TV/hifi for example.

Wonder just how well something with rotating pins would survive? But it
certainly looks a good idea. Although not many will be willing to hack
off
their plugs to fit it. So it would need to be taken up as OE by somebody.

ISTR something similar for low current appliances - is it still made?

I've got some inline distribution boards that take 6 plugs similar to IEC
ones. But haven't seen them for a while. But my main installation dates
back to before everything came with a fitted plug - so I dunno if I'd use
that system now.

Rob

OT (cont'd) Also came across this:

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Radio 4 this morning:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/8398753.stm

'A singing toy mouse has been recalled after complaints that it sings
the words "paedophile, paedophile", the Sun reports. Listen to the song
played on the Today programme.'

It did indeed sound like paedophile to me - but not apparently to the
presenter.


Apparently, if you slow it down it does sound like jingle bells.


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QED used to sell a distribution panel which took small plugs similar to
IECs, but without the shroud. Then they were modified to have a tab
which opened the socket shutters. By cutting off the tab, the later
plugs as well as the originals could interchange with an IEC mains
outlet, albeit without shrouds round the pins.


Yep, that's it, that was what I was thinking about.

Considering that professionally, IEC mains distribution panels are
commonplace, there will be one or more in any equipment rack, I'm
surprised no enterprising Foo-merchant (RA for example?) has thought of
dusting them with fairy-powder, quadrupling the price and selling them
as the latest audiophile accessory....Gold-plated MKs are so last year....


Well, if RA got the ball rolling and a dozen rich people bought the
product and paid for the development, which then got knocked off
elsewhere at a reasonable price, I wouldn't complain.

Rob

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote

'A singing toy mouse has been recalled after complaints that it sings
the words "paedophile, paedophile", the Sun reports. Listen to the song
played on the Today programme.'

It did indeed sound like paedophile to me - but not apparently to the
presenter.


If I hadn't been told in advance that it was supposed to sound like
"paedophile" I'd certainly never have thought it did. OTOH no-way did the
second word sound like "bells". If pushed to identify words in that noise
I'd have gone for "single-file".

David.

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David Looser wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote

'A singing toy mouse has been recalled after complaints that it sings
the words "paedophile, paedophile", the Sun reports. Listen to the
song played on the Today programme.'

It did indeed sound like paedophile to me - but not apparently to the
presenter.


If I hadn't been told in advance that it was supposed to sound like
"paedophile" I'd certainly never have thought it did. OTOH no-way did
the second word sound like "bells". If pushed to identify words in that
noise I'd have gone for "single-file".

Perhaps they should have played it first before giving the choices. But it
was nothing like 'jingle bells'.

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Hmm, well, I am sure a few years ago one of the singing santa novelties was
singing the word 'Tomato' in its song, but I was told it was in fact
something else and it was the foreign accent to blame.

Brian

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"Rob" wrote in message
m...
Came across this on another newsgroup:

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?opt...es-the-uk-plug -

Seems just the thing to at least start to tidy up the plug/socket
proliferation I have - 11 at the TV/hifi for example.

ISTR something similar for low current appliances - is it still made?

Rob

OT (cont'd) Also came across this:

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Radio 4 this morning:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/8398753.stm

'A singing toy mouse has been recalled after complaints that it sings the
words "paedophile, paedophile", the Sun reports. Listen to the song played
on the Today programme.'

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On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:33:55 GMT, Rob
wrote:

Radio 4 this morning:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/8398753.stm

'A singing toy mouse has been recalled after complaints that it sings
the words "paedophile, paedophile", the Sun reports. Listen to the song
played on the Today programme.'

Sounds about as much like "pedophile" as it does like "jingle bells".