American joke on the Brits

"Bill Silvey" wrote in message
news:2ZaUa.16546There's this old chestnut:

bijou snipette

Did you hear the last colo(u)r television factory in England closed
recently?

Yes, it's rather sad. They had to quit manufacturing them. They
couldn't
figure out how to make them leak oil.

FWIW
File under 'useless' information.

Now, it may come as a surprise Bill, but back in the 1960s one UK factory
had devised an oil leaking TV ....... true. The company's name was Murphy
who produced a range of TVs which had better than the then avearge of
picture quality. A lot of this was down to the type of line output
transformer they used. It was oil cooled and yes, you guessed it ..........
they sometimes DID leak !!
~=~
John Ding (UK)