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studdedsham said:

Now that it's been brought up, I could imagine a comic book.

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Although the writers have given your comments serious consideration, their efforts as of late have been focused on public service announcements.

The following is adapted and embellished from a post in equipment, I personally think it fits here better.

And thanks for stopping in.


Once upon a time, in a land not far from here, there lived a young UPS. He knew that he was different from most of the other UPS's. He had a pure sine wave output, which gave him the opportunity to do almost anything he wanted in life. He felt bored in school, he was taught that supporting a PC was his destiny, but he had other plans. He graduated with excellent grades in VA class, 100%. WATTS class was a little different story, subjects such as power factor and RCL circuits kept his grades to 60%.

He wanted to make use of his talents in support of life, flora and fauna. "What better way than to supply my pure sine wave power to a planted freshwater aquarium?", he thought. He went to bed that night pondering all of the new equipment he could meet, and possibly help.

The first dream of the night started simple enough. It was an exciting dream, he got to stick his thing into a GFCI. O, it felt good. But something unexpected happened, something behind him grounded and shut the GFCI off. He immediately sprang to action as he had been taught so many times. He awoke in a cold sweat and with the smell of green smoke.

It took him forever to return to sleep after that nightmare, all he could think about was all of those fish, floating lifeless because he had done what he was trained to do. "Maybe a life of PC's isn't so bad", he thought.

After hours of self torture, he finally fell back to sleep. It wasn't long until he was dreaming of sticking his thing in something else, just a regular old wall outlet. It still felt good, but this was soon to end. The GFCI from the dream before was behind him, and upset because he left in the middle of something good. The power from the old wall outlet was a bit iffy this evening, it quit with little warning. And again, UPS sprang to action, but he just couldn't help. You see, the GFCI was a manual reset, pissed off piece of hardware. There is no way GFCI was going to let him through to do his job. He again woke in a cold sweat thinking of all those fish meeting the end ever so slowly. Cold and the slow reduction of oxygen has to be a miserable way to go.

He thought he would never sleep again, but finally he dropped into the land of dreams. This time he didn't think so selfishly, he thought of who he could help. He started by making friends with an auto reset GFCI, a beautiful thing. Of course he had to get around to sticking his thing into something, so why not the old wall outlet.

This was a very good relationship, and he learned a lot about his body. He was fast, and had many watt hours to be able to go all night. He learned to stay away from those manual reset GFCI's, something his mother never thought to warn him about. And he spent the rest of his days with the old wall outlet, the kind you can take home to Mom.

And they all lived happily ever after.

This is a Hillbilly News Special Report:

There has been an incredible disaster at one of the HHH branch offices. We are kind of late on the scene, but we have file photos that show the destruction that can be caused by one individual. We don't yet have a real name, but local officials refer to him with an alias of, "The Hurricane". Many volunteers are helping with the clean-up as we speak, we'll get to some of those deeds of heroism shortly.

First we would like to show you just what mayhem can be. This photo was taken less than 24 hours after the perpetrator left the scene. As you can see, the Wet Cross has set up a Kuhli relief center and supplemental heat.



O, what devastation. Filter inlets clogged with debris, dangling temperature sensors, reduced water levels from the missing hard scape, and dozens of plants uprooted and gone. This guy doesn't miss a thing either, even the diffuser is turned upside down.

But, we must focus on the positive in times such as these. The Wet Cross is a class act, they show with materials for evacuation of the remaining inhabitants.



I am glad to report that all of the communities residents are now accounted for. We have a short interview with one of the last to be rescued. Meet Dot.



Dot, we want to thank you for taking the time to talk to us. This must be a difficult time for you. Do you have anything to say to our listening audience?

"Yes, yes I most certainly do. Not if, but when they catch the monster responsible for this, I want to see him in Kuhli Kourt where he will be treated like the snail that he is."

We now take you to an enlightening story relating to the investigative unit. In their professional diligence, they leave no lid unturned. It can now be confirmed that most, if not all of the flora and hard scape has been found. This also gives our investigators a lead to follow, that container looks familiar.



The following is an example of what inter company resources can achieve. The HHH central office dispatched a community rehabilitation team with ample funding for reconstruction. Out with the old, and in with the new. A mixture of Flourite and Eco-Complete is shoveled in.







And temporary housing is established in an attempt to get this community back to some sense of norm.



Within only a few days, children are back playing in the streets. And, the roots of a community are beginning to set.







There are still signs of rehabilitation from time to time.





The temporary housing has now been removed.



And the planning commission now meet mon-fri for top to bottom look at what needs to be done next.



The Justice Department now thinks that this was most certainly an inside job. Internal Affairs seems to be a bit reluctant to take the case, flimsy evidence is their reasoning. All we can do as a responsible news agency is to follow every lead we can gather. And most importantly warn you the public that "The Hurricane" still moves free among us.

Until next time, thank you for tuning in to the Hillbilly News.