"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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ian field wrote:

"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:17:29 -0000, Michael A. Terrell
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ian field wrote:

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Peter Hucker wrote:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:14:26 -0000, Michael A. Terrell
wrote:

What part of CFL lamps overheating and catching on fire
goes
right
over your head?

It only happens extremely occasionally.


A hell of a lot more often than with incandescent lamps. A
lot
of
incandescent fixtures are not designed for safe operation of CFL
lamps.


PHucker boasts of having rigged his house with cobbled together
12V
lighting
run from solar panels and scrounged end of life car batteries, he
most
likely had some scares using LV halogens in unsuitable enclosures.


With any luck, it will burn to the ground from his shoddy work.

He has a number of parrots loose in the house - it wouldn't be fair
on
them!


So, everything there is a birdbrain?

Silly term "birdbrain" - most birds are more intelligent than a lot of
people.


You must come from a large family then.


If the birds are so smart, why do they stay with him?


Birds of a feather flock together.