On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:54:46 +0000, Danny D'Amico wrote:

The problem is my fault. I was making a joke, but, even with the smiley,
nobody got the joke.

I just found where I actually said the joke, and, well, it's pretty clear
to me that I was joking. Oh well. It's still my fault if nobody got it.

Here is the exact quote that was snipped out prior. Notice I first explained
that the ground is the return path for the three 120-degrees-out-of-phase hot
wires, and then I added the one sentence (with a smiley) that got me in trouble:

Apologies in advance for the top posting - but here is the post in toto:

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:47:51 +0000, Danny D'Amico wrote:

I was always of the opinion that the ground was the second set of three wires.
That is, the power company grabs electrons from the ground, and then it sends
those electrons over three wires, 120 degrees out of phase, and then the
electrons return to the power company through the ground.

It's a huge loop. At least the way I understand it.

BTW, here are six wires, but they're not the same thing!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/1...349dd5b6_o.gif