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John Rumm wrote:
It's the beauty of a ring. It's eminently suitable for the sort of
actual use it gets in domestic premises. Lots of relatively low
current devices used intermittently. And a large number of outlets to
avoid having trailing cables.

The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

Indeed - as a design it has endured because it works so well with modern
usage patterns.

Yes. In this particular case the crystal ball worked. ;-)

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*All men are idiots, and I married their King.

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