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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: Miraculous button makes things work again.
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:56:13 -0800
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:42:50 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:04:05 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>> 
>> >On 1/28/25 18:32, Mark Lloyd wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:56:59 -0800, john larkin wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> [snip]
>> >> 
>> >>> We have a horrible new Panasonic microwave oven. The BEEP is
>> >>> ear-splitting. The procedure to silence it is complex, and only works if
>> >>> the door is open.
>> >> 
>> >> Does it keep forgetting it was silenced, so you have to do this procedure
>> >> multiple times?
>> >> 
>> >
>> >On one occasion, I muted an obnoxious beeper by stuffing
>> >chewing gum into it. There! Problem solved.
>> >
>> >Jeroen Belleman
>> 
>> I break the piezo buzzer, if I can get at it.
>> 
>> We should arrest whoever invented piezo buzzers. Put him in a prison
>> cell with 100 piezos.
>
>My microwave oven has a little metal gong,  When the timer has run back
>to zero, it releases a tiny hammer and the gong goes "ping!"  Perhaps
>one day they will re-invent this idea and hail it as a great improvment.

How about a knob that you turn, the more you turn it the longer the
microwave runs.