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Gas Stations and Cell Phonology

So, those damn e-mails I've been getting from all those Nigerian finance ministers and wives of dead presidents and foreign ministers were scams! But look who fell for the one about the big construction project.

Isn't it nice to know that the people occupying our highest offices are so gullible. I mean Cheney gets that e-mail and ... I can see it now ... salivating at the thought of billions ... immediately wires 180 million bucks to some Nigerian guys -- what a moron!

Geez ... I didn't like Reagan ... I think we are all rosy-glowing like Field of Dreams, but Reagan started the right wing politics of exclusion, which we have in full bloom today. He invented deficit spending, into which Bush has thrown himself with an insatiable lustfulness never seen before in human history. George the Lesser is thanking his Lucky Charms that he could like stretch this Reagan funeral thing out for more than a week in the hope that we would all like ... ummm ... forget about the bad shit that has been happening ... like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war against Al Qaeda, the turmoil in the most democratic country of Saudi Arabia, our oily ally, the Israelis blowing up the Palestinians and the Palestinians blowing up the Israelis daily, AIDS, prescription drug costs, etc., etc., etc.

Okay, enough of this whining about the state of the country and Bush and Cheney and their game of sleight of hand -- ON TO THE IMPORTANT SHIT OF LIFE!!!!

The two totally cool dudes on Mythbusters, which is a TV show on one of the Discovery Channels, challenged the claim by BP Oil that cell phones (Episode 2) will cause a life-ending-as-we-know-it conflagration if the person using the cell phone is pumping gas and gets a call or talks on a cell phone. The theory is that the small electro-magnetic discharge by the antenna or battery will cause gasoline fumes to explode. And don't be jackin' with me -- if you read the fine print on the warning signs by the pumps, it's there in plain English ... whatever.

I have recounted my experience of getting yelled at by the teen-aged, blond attendant chick for taking a call while pumping gas elsewhere in this blog and don't feel like going back to find the story. If you know the link, post it in a comment or something. Needless to say, cell phone use is a sore spot for the workers, particularly the blond chick, at the BP station I frequent.

The bald Mythbustersdudes built a combustion chamber to test whether cell phones create a spark and explode gasoline vapors. They called the cell phone in the chamber -- there was no explosion! They stripped the insulation off the cell phone antenna and called the phone -- there was no explosion! They fucked up an old battery and created a short circuit -- there was no explosion! They fucked up a new battery and disabled safety features to prevent short circuits and then created a short circuit -- there was no explosion!

I might just have to buy the DVD and carry it with me along with my little DVD player. Then when that little blond chick barks at me over the fucking intercom about using my cell phone, I can get out my DVD player and show her the facts.

BUSTED!!!!

But ... hey, wait a second, I heard something about this Star Wars laser shit creating like a shield and blowing up newk-you-ler missiles being shot at us by Iraq ... do you think that maybe the laser beam in the DVD player will cause the gasoline vapors to blow up?

Posted by Bill at June 13, 2004 11:28 PM