Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for July 11, 2012

After you.

Trouble is, nobody will try it till everybody’s already toasted.

It’s bound to be an electrifying experience, though.

Doesn’t the toast get all soggy and hard to light?

I like a comic grounded in reality.

It’s the current rage, no matter how re volt ing.

You shouldn’t use that word for Cylons.

Reminds me of a really old joke:

A doofus comes into the emergency room with third degree burns on his face.

“OMG, what happened to you?” exclaims the ER doctor.

“Well, I was at a party and we were bobbing for French Fries …”

In reality, if there was a shock risk, it would have been evident the moment he plugged in the electrical cord. The easiest path to complete the circuit would be the ‘neutral’ or ground that is the other conductor in the electrical cord. It would blow the circuit immediately. Humans have a dry-body resistance of ~25,000 Ohms from finger tip to finger tip and, at 120VAC (~93 Volts RMS), you’re only looking at something on the order of 3.7 milliamps. You’d feel it but not suffer any damage. Now, if he only had the one HOT conductor in the punch bowl, there’s lots of ions in the solution and the participants are well grounded, that’s a different story…