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How can a flashlight be digital
That's like idiomatic screwdriver
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How can a flashlight be analog? It's either on or it's off.
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Eat your hearts out. Several years back, in order to stay ahead of my young charges at summer camp, I bought the world's coolest flashlight. It has no batteries. Instead, there is a heavy magnet in the shaft which one shakes up and down such that it passes through a coil to generate electricity which is stored in a capacitor. It has no bulb to burn out. Instead, it has a LED at the business end. What is most cool of all about it is that the little campers are so enamoured of the device that they beg me to allow them to do the shaking before I hike back up the trail at night to the chaplain's quarters. Is it digital? Who cares. It is cool!
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> Is it digital? What do you hold it with?
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Digital has another meaning which in this millennium appears to have been forgotten. Of or relating to the finger or fingers. I have a digital flashlight, just about as big as my index finger. It takes one AA cell or perhaps on AAA cell and has an LED rather than a bulb, like Fr Steve's dynamo-driven light.
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> Digital has another meaning which in this millennium appears to have been forgotten. Of or relating to the finger or fingers
or to put it another way: What do you hold it with?
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Stumped me on that one. Crazy glue.
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My aunt has a solar-powered flashlight.
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My aunt has a solar-powered flashlight.
Your auntie is cool and would be a big hit if she were to come to camp with me this summer.
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Take heart, Father Steve, I coming to camp with you in Seattle this summer for a week in July - along with one thousand other cavers. You wanna see lights? We'll show you lights. The National Speleological Society recommends that each caver carry three sources of lights - the best lights. Some hand held lights that we carry cost over $300. Wow! 
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