Originally posted by sonhouseh2g2 is just the name of the programme - comes from "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". So the h2g2 microwave just means "their microwave".
What is an h2g2 microwave? Did you see that in the piece? Also has an h2g2 kitchen.
Also, if you don't know the frequency of the microwave, you are screwed.
For the frequency, they say "On the back of the oven will be a label that tells you the frequency the oven operates at". If it doesn't, true - you're out of luck.
I'd accept this isn't exactly a high-precision experiment though 🙂.
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Originally posted by sonhouseI was told that it was from Dorothy Parker...
Little tribute to W.C. Fields?
But wikiquote has it on the Tom Waits page.
Edit: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/id_rather_have_a_bottle_in_front_of_me_than_a_frontal_lobotomy/
"I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” is one of the most famous of modern drinking quips. But who said it first?
The musician Tom Waits said the line on the August 1, 1977 episode of the television show Fernwood2night, a parody of The Tonight Show. Waits played a song, and then said the line in pre-scripted banter with the show’s host. it would appear that a television comedy writer should get credit for the line, but Waits said in a 2005 interview that he first read it on a bathroom wall.
Adding more to the confusion...