A New Approach to Problem Solving...

[ltymann]

One of my friends sent this to me and it is amusing:

An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report
that her telephone failed to ring when her friends
called - and that on the few occasions when it did
ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone
rang.

The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene,
curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly
lady.He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his
test set, and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone
didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned loudly
and the telephone began to ring.Climbing down from the
pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire via a steel
chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the phone number was called.
4.After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate on himself and the ground.
5.The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.

Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning.