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Old 22nd Jun 2018, 3:12 pm   #30
Grubhead
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
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Default Re: Who was Les Lawry-Johns?

My favourite one of his stories was with the sensor touch GEC TV's.
The IC and neon lights on the channel changes would go wrong and they would need replacing. Or the touch controls that worked off static from the fingers would grease up with dirt from fingers.
He had one in the shop one day and did all the work and it was waiting perfectly. So he had it up on the counter to show the owner of the set. And show it was working. The customer was impressed till he tried it himself. "It's not working for me Les"
So Les tried again and it was working for Les. But as soon as the customer pressed on the buttons nothing happened. Les couldn't work it out! Then he leaned over the counter and noticed the customer was standing on a rubber mat that had just been cleaned. So Lez blurted out to the man "the matt's robbing you of your energy". The customer leapt off the matt faster you can say!
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