From: r_delaney2001@yahoo.com   
      
   Once upon a time, there was a village called Diode.   
   The inhabitants were an excitable lot, who tended to   
   get charged easily, positively or negatively.   
      
   They liked to play musical chairs.  When a negative   
   charge shifted to a higher seat, that was a current   
   of -1.  A positive moving down, was also -1.   
      
   One day, there were 5 seats, filled with negatives.   
   But Eddie Electron, in #5, had too much sangria at   
   dinner, got sick, and went home, leaving an empty   
   seat, with charge +1, relative to Eddie.   
      
   So the other electrons all shifted up one seat, for   
   total current -4.  The empty seat shifted down to #1,   
   hence also current of -4.  Total current:  -8   
      
   The next day, Paul Positron, charge +1, occupied   
   seat #5.  Again, the negatives all shifted up one seat,   
   total current: -4   Paul moved to #1, for current -4.   
   Thus again, total current:  -8   
      
                       The End   
      
      
   --   
   Rich   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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