May
13, 1844, the Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) formed in New York.
Within days, exotic ideas were careening around inside the craniums of these kooks * and it was they, we at ABE Ministry confidently assert, absent even the tiniest bit of evidence, it was they, we repeat, who thunk-up the idea of the electric chair which was to feature so prominently as a way to kill deserving criminals and also appear prominently in Hollywood Movies as an object to be faux-feared by James Cagney so as to set a good example for angels with dirty faces **
*
These
engineers would often load-up their beakers with tiny mice and they
set the beakers over souped-up Bunsen Burners and boil the shit
out of the mice until they blowed-up.
Why
are we doing this, you ask? Well, because the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory asked us to
What?
We
said, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory hasn't even been invented yet;
neither have jets...
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I
think Rod Stewart was in a group named that