http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/battery.asp
I appear to have gotten it wrong. Sigh.

On 9/5/2013 10:39 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Hmm. I'd not heard this, but it does make sense.

Perhaps some tupperware containers would help keep
me from having to pry the batteries from my cold,
dead refrigerator racks.