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I couldn't hold a candle to you, Milum
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you two are definitely a match!
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Well, this thread is certainly illuminating.
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at least no one is flaming it...
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Back in the 1910s and 1920s, Victor Appleton wrote a series of books for boys which featured Tom Swift. In one of them, "Tom Swift and the Caves of Ice" I think it was, Tom uses a new invention in which some small batteries are placed in a tube with an electric bulb and a reflector and lens at one end. A switch then allows the user to turn the electric torch on and off. It was amazing. But a lot of that stuff was just science fiction, eh?
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i have visited cave --improved ones like howe caverns (NY, in march of this year) and significantly less improved ones in various parts of pennsylvania
and i have visited mine musuems (in the actual mines, not above ground!) and visited old (colonial) iron mines (that dot NYstate--all this inspite of the fact that i am deadly afraid of the dark.
I'm not afraid of what passes for dark in NYC -even in the black out,there are car lights, lights powered by emergency generators (amazing how many of those there are!) and other light sourses. but real darkness.. (and underground caves are dark!)--so i know flashlights!
i always have a working flashlight (i check the batteries frequently) in my purse. and one in my car.. and 1 in every room of my apartment (bathroom, foyer and terrace included!)
at this point, some are color coordinated.. there is a perfectly matched purple flashlight in my foyer, and a blue one in dining room, and a bright yellow and black one in computer room (the walls are yellow there, but much of the electronic equipment (table lamp, shredder) is black or dark grey(computer/printer)--other rooms have more or less matching ones too, (the bathroom has a white one, my bedroom a blue one...)
some are the kind that have crummy bulbs, and take D cells, most are mag lights (or mini mags)-(and i have spare bulbs in the base of all of them!)
One of these days, i'll go back to having a super mini (1 AAA size battery to power) flashlight on my key ring.
most flashlights are powered direct current (batteries!) not on alternating current) and since most digital (computers, etal) equipment also runs on direct current it think i would call most flashlights digital. they are on or off, and while maglights do allow you to focus the beam, you can't, on them, or most flashlights adjust the light.(with a dial--a feature of analog equipment.
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I have those in nearly all the rooms of my home. Very convenient since you never have to check the batteries. The light isn't the greatest but it is more than enough to illuminate the area while looking for the propane lamp. A woman at the office was selling them for ten bucks a pop last December, so I bought one for everybody in my family - well one for each family. I wrapped them up for Christmas and stood them up side-by-side beside the goodie bags of stuff I'd made up as prizes to be won for the games we play during the party. A couple of the goodie bags were "pleasure-packs" which included those wooded massage wheels, loofa, aromatherapy foam bath, and um, personal lubricant. All stuff we manufacture at work. Well, I'll let you folks imagine what people thought the long flashlights were after they'd seen the pleasure-pack goodie bags with personal lubricant. 
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It's revealing that we get 306 hits on "digital toothbrush"
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 revealing what?
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