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On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 15:53:02 -0000 (UTC), Ted Heise wrote:

> As an adolescent I was quite taken with a somewhat older friend who
> would put the base of a standard incandescent light bulb into his mouth,
> then get it to light.  He eventually clued me in to the trick: he had
> carefully taken out the glass and metal inner parts of the base (along
> with filament) and inserted a very small flashlight with a push button
> switch at the center of the base. He could light it by pressing on the
> button/switch with his tongue.

Not light related but a friend had an early Yaamaha two-stroke bike, 175 
cc iirc, in the mid-60s. His gag was to shake the bike by the handlebars 
and it would magically run. In context, it that era starting a bike 
involved jumping up and down on the kick sometimes with much cursing. 

I had a friend of slight build. He would jump up, come down on the pedal 
of my Harley's starter and --- nothing moved.

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  Re: GNU richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2026-03-30 11:02 +0000
    Re: GNU "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-30 21:03 +0200
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                Re: Mercury Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-03 00:21 +0000
                Re: Mercury c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-02 22:51 -0400
                Re: Mercury Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-03 03:21 +0000
                Re: Mercury "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-03 14:38 +0200
                Re: Mercury rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-03 06:22 +0000
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                Re: CPU architecture (was Re: Mercury) Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-04-04 03:27 +0000
                Re: CPU architecture (was Re: Mercury) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-04 04:57 +0000
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                Re: CPU architecture (was Re: Mercury) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-03 10:35 -0400
                Re: CPU architecture (was Re: Mercury) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-03 07:00 +0000
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                Re: Mercury Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-04-02 20:53 +0000
                Re: Mercury The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-03 10:51 +0100
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