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Jul. 19th, 2019 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdog"...and lots of magic smoke came out," I said to my therapist, talking about working on the UPS. "Do you know about the magic smoke?"
"No!"
"That's how electronics work. All the components have magic smoke inside. When it gets out, they stop working."
"Oh, I thought it was gnomes doing all the work in there?"
"Well, gnomes are known for smoking pipes, right? Maybe it's gnomish pipe smoke?"
"I'm glad we could find a mutually consistent explanation," they said.
"I'm pretty flexible!"
"No!"
"That's how electronics work. All the components have magic smoke inside. When it gets out, they stop working."
"Oh, I thought it was gnomes doing all the work in there?"
"Well, gnomes are known for smoking pipes, right? Maybe it's gnomish pipe smoke?"
"I'm glad we could find a mutually consistent explanation," they said.
"I'm pretty flexible!"
