How did they light the bulb in Uncle Fester's mouth?

[Orrex]

:shrug:


And let's skip the electricity puns, please, because they're all too easy.

[Parche]

1. Enron?

:rofl: :hi:

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Archie McPhee®

They used to carry the light bulb, but I guess it was recalled.

http://www.mcphee.com/

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Trick lightbulb

It has a battery inside it. Make contact between a couple ponts on the base of the lightbulb with metal, and it will light up. I used to have one.

[Orrex]

6. Pffft! Yeah, like I'm going to believe *that*

:eyes:

That's got to be the most preposterous thing I've ever heard.

Or the second most.



No--the most.

[EstimatedProphet]

14. You're right. I made it up. You caught me.

Jackie Coogan was able to produce 100 watts of electricity in his mouth.

[Kingshakabobo]

22. I had one too! Got it at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry gift shop.

[Lance_Boyle]

4. CGI

no doubt.

[_testify_]

5. Shoved a potato up his ass?

[Orrex]

7. I was thinking of an extension cord, but a potato is more parsimonious, I suppose

Ouch!

[MysticalChicken]

15. okay...

I have no idea what the word "parsimonious" means, having never heard it before, but I think it's my new favorite word.

Off to dictionary.com...

EDIT: My mom is parsimonious.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Your mom is the easiest solution?

[MysticalChicken]

17. According to dictionary.com

parsimonious means frugal or thrifty...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parsimonious

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Uh, not really

Parsimonious means the easiest explanation.

[MysticalChicken]

19. so dictionary.com is not to be trusted?

Or can it be one of those words that has more than one meaning (I forget what the actual word for words like that is)? Are you sure it's "parsimonious" that means "the easiest solution"?

Dammit, if that word is wrong, now I won't know which words on dictionary.com are defined correctly. I have an actual dictionary, but it sucks.

[EstimatedProphet]

20. OK, just looked it up

Weird...

The Theory of Parsimony is a scientific principle that states that the easiest, least complex solution is probably the best for any given problem. However, the online dictionaries define it as frugal. So, I'll give you that. I've never heard it referred to that way.

[MysticalChicken]

21. yeah, I just looked it up on like five different definition websites

They all say it means frugal, thrifty, or stingy.

I'd never heard of the Theory of Parsimony before.

[EstimatedProphet]

23. OK. Wikipedia has it as both

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsimony

I learned it from the science perspective, so that was my first thought.

[Burma Jones]

8. They didn't, they just made everything else very dark

[Orrex]

9. Whoa! You just blew my mind!

Or maybe the bulb was black, they painted everything else white, and used the negative for the final print.

[Burma Jones]

11. That would work..........

[Lady Freedom]

10. A bottle of Jack Daniels!!!

:beer:

[Orrex]

12. I'd love one

But how did they light the bulb?

[Lady Freedom]

13. Are you kidding!?

Drink a full bottle, you and a bulb will get lite up!