Re: Electric kettles

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:35:49 -0400, the renowned "CDB"
<unbellecd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Charles Riggs" <chriggs@éircom.net> wrote in message
>news:2i8ml115dt5as81i1g1ev3e319cckai1r3@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:42:38 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum
>> <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Charles Riggs <chriggs@éircom.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:09:50 +0800, Robert Bannister
>>>> <robban@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Aha! I've just had a closer look. It does look like a male
>>>>>connection because it is raised from the base and fits into a
>>>>>depression in the kettle. However, on inspection, I see the "male"
>>>>>part actually has a small female hole in the centre. So you are
>>>>>correct. My apologies.
>>>>
>>>> Not need -- it is difficult to know what to call such connectors.
>>>> "Hermaphrodite" was the best I could come up with a day or two
>>>> ago.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, the term is already taken. A hermaphroditic
>>>connector
>>>is one that has both both pins and sockets and will mate with
>>>another
>>>such connector.
>>
>> OK, smarty, you come up with a name for them, then.
>
> "Transvestite connector". Not that I'm assuming the mantle of
>smartness.

Is that mantle mounted on some sort of onus?


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