New name wrote, "Just for the record...I'm no peanut, sucker!"
Ouch, I sure walked into that ?'sucker' punch.
Eva wrote:What happened to the great story about cooking the camera? It was here earlier. My reply doesn't make any sense now.

Quite right Eva. I think Li'l Turtle is practising to be a sub editor. I spend half my life replying to posts that no longer appear. So now, I get them ?'cashed'.
Although I could not find the original, I do have one from Australia:
"I have two brothers (i'll call them Tom and Jerry). Jerry sit's at a computer with a camera pointed at him, he chats on a website I find, amm, (girls expose themselves for fun, he chats with 18+ women, but some of them are married). In the course of any given day, a family member in my house can be possibly viewed just by walking past the camera.
I wanted to put an end to the camera viewing activity without starting a family feud, but how? Hmm, (evil twin in me alert!) If I threw the camera away that would be to obvious, so, I decided to 'hinder' the cameras ability, and not get caught, put the camera back, act like nothing happened if questioned. How does one 'hinder' a perfectly good camera? Easy, so I thought.
Plan A.
When no one is looking, disassemble the camera and 'adjust' a resister or capacitor, maybe scratch a landing connection or two, but this camera was not made to be disassembled, I couldn't get the darn thing apart!
Plan B.
Need to 'hinder' internal mechanisms without the luxury of being able to take the camera apart.
Side note: Walking across a room, especially during the winter months can build up enough of a charge (electro static discharge) to zap a capacitor, thus 'hindering' the function of any sensitive computer part.
With that being said...I decided to put the camera in the microwave, thus causing an internal 'hinderance' but leaveing the outside intact. I cooked it for 2 seconds (what a light show)...zappy zappy zing!
I got more than I bargained for, the charge ran through the cable and melted 2 spots and left exposed wire. So I'm standing in the kitchen staring at the bare wire... what could I do, I hooked it back up to the computer and went on my merry way.
Later on, I started feeling guilty for cooking said camera, (it is not like me to purposely 'hinder' other peoples belonging's, but I couldn't help myself, my evil twin was doing the thinking!)
Long story short, the angel in me ratted on myself! I told my brother Tom I cooked the camera, and why. (For the most part, my family members just stare at me and shake their heads).
So now I had to 'right' my 'wrong', and replace the camera. I gave Jerry $80 to go get a new one. Nothing has changed except Jerry has a brand new camera in which to partake in the same activities he was doing before I decided to 'alter' thing's."
"Have you ever done that?"
Before passing judgement, I had better check out the web cam, in the name of justice you understand. In the meantime may I suggest you plead the 5th.
"Have you ever done that?"
Oh sure, fried camera obscurer is a favorite dish in these here parts. Mind you, if this just between ourselves:
I have six brothers and a stepsister who is working her way thro Harvard.
Well, we had our suspicions that she was not whiter than white, as she always left in the afternoon all dressed up, if you know what I mean.
Then last Friday, some of the guys took me out, and after a few drinks said they has a surprise for me to celebrate my birthday. To cut to the chase they tied and gagged me and took me to a whorehouse. Yes, you guessed it the girl who walked in was my stepsister. She could not recognise me thro all the bonds. The more I struggled the more she got on with...zappy zappy zing! In truth, I could not resister.
After she left, I got free and left via the window. Now, my problem is what do I do? I'm not Happy, you understand, but should I tell the others?