Agnes by Tony Cochran for March 13, 2013

Nothing to do with welding….when not used to mean stimulation by electric current, either literally or metaphorically, it means to coat with a thin layer of zinc, either by means of an electric current or by hot dipping, to help prevent corrosion.

Galvanised metal, usually steel, has a crystalline pattern, rather like frost makes sometimes on a window.

Anyway, I wanted to thank DavidHuieGreen for explaining for me, yesterday, in my absence.

Didn’t mean to confuse you, JimmyH…just being funny….or not.

Food works well too.

I am galvanised to comment…have we ever seen Trout without a drink (or sandwich) in her hand?

Getting the nation’s youth (whatever the year) galvanized into action has never been a problem. The problem has been to get them all moving in any predetermined direction. It’s sort of like herding cats.

………as in batteries, frog legs and a HS biology class.

♫♪ Here we go looky-loo, here we go looky-light. Here we go looky-loo, all on a Saturday night. ♪♫

And it was the fact that galvanic action could make a dead frog’s leg twitch which partly inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein or; The Modern Prometheus (actually, the muscle wasn’t really fully dead yet but that’s a philosophical question best posed to Agnes)

Cattle prods, electric currents, hot dipping. ….. Isn’t herding cats easier than herding the very young or the very old? (Both do what they want and both will throw nasty things at you.. things you do not want to know….)

I’m trying to figure out how swineherds do it too after trying to direct the movements of one young boar recently. Maybe you just grab the tusks and hope for the best.