Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 18, 2016
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Transcript:
Madeline: Should we get a photo of them on Santa's lap? Peter: I guess. Petey: I'm not going to actually sit on his lap. Peter: There's a precious memory package with 25 photo cards, 20 8X10's... Madeline: Take off your hat, Alice. Alice: No. Petey: I'll stand to one side with an air of quiet reserve. Peter: Six photo mugs, six photo magnets, five photo ornaments, four photo beer kooziess, a photo mouse pad... Madeline: Alice Alice: No. I like the hat on. Santa's wearing his hat. Peter: All for $49.95. Madeline: Your turn, kids! Smile big! Alice: HEY! Madeline: Aw, look! Grandma will love these. Peter: Dibs on a beer koozie. Petey: If you'd gotten the precious memory delux package, Grandma would get a tattoo. Alice: Hmph
What Alice needs is a degausser.
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Degaussing is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Due to magnetic hysteresis, it is generally not possible to reduce a magnetic field completely to zero, so degaussing typically induces a very small “known” field referred to as bias. Degaussing was originally applied to reduce ships’ magnetic signatures during World War II. Degaussing is also used to reduce magnetic fields in cathode ray tube monitors and to destroy data held on magnetic storage. Wikipedia