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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 13:33:00 GMT
- From: vixen!jadams@uunet.UU.NET (26070-adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Make Mine Extra Dry, Please, and Hold the Olive
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 656, Message 9 of 10
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- In article <telecom12.641.6@eecs.nwu.edu>, coleman@twinsun.com (Mike
- Coleman) writes:
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- > I was sitting in traffic behind a PacBell repair van and noticed two
- > large weatherproof socket covers (the kind of thing you see on outdoor
- > power receptacles) on the upper rear of the van. One was labeled
- > "DRY" and the other "WET". I'm puzzled; anyone know what these are?
-
- Not really sure of this instance, but I'll render an opinion (after
- all, any clod can have the facts 8^)! Wet and dry are slang for
- whether or not a trunk has a battery and ground feed (Wet, or the line
- contains "juice") versus a circuit without battery and ground feed
- (Dry, sorry, no olives!)
-
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- Jack (John) Adams Bellcore RRC 4B-259
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