In the Spider-Man newspaper strip, there was one series where the Kingpin had created a super-powerful remote-controlled robot. Spidey defeated it by flipping a switch on the remote control (the only switch on the remote control, incidentally) so that when Kingpin ordered it to attack Spider-Man, it attacked Kingpin instead.
Does “flipping the toggle switch” count as “reversing the polarity”?
I reversed the polarity on my old VW bug, and it became a Ferrari.
I then reversed the polarity on some airport baggage screeners, and got a group of polite, intelligent, and friendly people.
Finally, I reversed the polarity at the Department of Motor Vehicles, and they came to my house, sat around for 3 hours and finally put new registration tags on my cars.
I wish I’d known about this polarity thing years ago…
Mike Myers has seen this done once too often as well.
In the new Austin Powers movie, Foxy Cleopatra reverses the polarity of the beam that is attracting the asteroid to smash into earth by switching two giant boxes with handles. The boxes are conveniently labeled Polarity - Positive and Negative*. The result is not to push the asteroid away but to blow it up.
Right at the last second, too. Imagine that.
*Or something like that. OK, so I may have a detail or two wrong.
there was a hole in the condom, the spermicide didn’t work, the IUD malfuncitoned, the diaphram sprung a leak and one little squiggly fella got by to the majestic egg. the odds were in our favor, but i would like to reverse the polarity on that situation. if you’re out there, spock, help me please!
No, no, no you’ve got it all wrong! Do this and a beam of light shoots out the other end of your flashlight! Unfortunately the end cap is in the way so you can never see it. But trust me, it’s there. If you unscrew the end cap really fast you might be able to test this…:rolleyes: