Arabian battery hats?

[vakkotaur]

I watch TV as a distraction while on I'm on the treadmill. As a result I wind up watching some things I would not otherwise. Tonight I wound up watching something on "Peak Oil" on the History channel that was generally factual with more sensationalism than I care for. I could stand that, it was entertaining if for the wrong reasons.

After that, I switched to Discovery which had a show about the Three Gorges Dam in China. This wasn't bad, at first. Then the narrator got to the electrical generation part of things and it was quite distracting as he kept saying "turban" rather than "turbine." This was bad enough, but when he got to a line about the section of the dam where the generators were located as being "where the electricity is stored" I just couldn't take it any more. Generators and turbines do not store electricity. I don't blame the narrator for that blunder, but some writer is an idiot.

Between the writer and narrator it was enough to make me think of putting a battery in a head-wrap. The result would be what was being talked about: electricity stored in a turban.

Comments

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

ma[d]e me think of putting a battery in a head-wrap. The result would be what was being talked about: electricity stored in a turban.

Try going through airport security with that though. :)

Limerick

[michaelmink.livejournal.com]

There once was a fellow from Durban
Who stored his volts in a turban
He rode on a rail
Every day without fail
This odd-looking fast interurban

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

I keep a couple of high-value capacitors in mine. =];-3

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

My dictionary (American Heritage Desk) gives both pronunciations as correct.

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

(sings) "...let's call the whole thing off."