Re: What do you say to people?

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: What do you say to people?
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 23:40:42 -0500
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Subject:   Re: What do you say to people?
  Date:    Fri, 9 May 1997 07:18:53 -0400 (EDT)
  From:    Tesla79-at-aol-dot-com
    To:    tesla-at-pupman-dot-com


In a message dated 97-05-09 03:46:55 EDT, you write:

> I imagine all of us have at one time or another been challenged by the
>  uninitiated as you have been.
>  
>  One of the commonest questions I get is, 'What use is it?"  They can't
>  figure why I'd spend money and lots of time, just to sit there and watch
>  electrical snakes issuing forth from the top terminal.  My favorite
>  comeback is, "It's a fancy mosquito killer" (fleakiller, what have you?)
>   Generally, though, after I've fired it up for them and they get a scope
>  on the electrical displays, they're suitably impressed, like, with mouth
>  open and gaping eyes.
>  
>  Don't be intimidated by questions which seek to make you feel less than
>  good about yourself and your interests..  Pity the questioner instead;
>  he/she hasn't the innate curiousity which you possess, nor the ambition
>  (and just plain hard work) to resurrect an idea a century old into life
>  again.  Besides, why does everything we do have to have any 'useful
>  purpose":  it's fun just to create something like this for the fun of
>  it.
>  
>  Forge ahead!!
>  
>  Stephen
>  
I agree with you.  If someone asks you about the usefulness of a Tesla
coil,
ask them if they ever play games.  Games are useless but people play
them all
the time.

Joey