Me: Those scissors say they're "half the work of regular scissors."
Wife: So?
Me: Well, they're spring-loaded. So by closing the scissors you compress a spring and then when you release pressure the spring returns the energy and opens them again. But springs aren't 100% efficient. You have to put more energy into closing the scissors in the first place than you get out of them. And even if springs were 100% efficient (which is impossible) it still takes much more energy to close springy scissors than it does to close regular scissors.
Wife: It's easier for your hand to close scissors than to open them again.
Me: That may be. But then they should say "easier to open" or "slightly easier cutting" or "now with built-in elastic potential energy storage device with k of 6 N/m." They claim to be "half the work" but they're actually more than half, probably much more depending on the spring. It's false advertising.
Wife: Are you still talking?

Comments

1. Sweet T on 2007-05-25 06:55:00 wrote: that sounds like a conversation between me and the hubs! lol

2. mc on 2007-05-25 11:26:35 wrote: rofl …classic. (i commented before when you asked who your readers were.. and i didn’t have a blog… but now i do! you’re on my blogroll, and if you like my blog, it would be an honor to be on yours.) :)

3. Lady S on 2007-05-30 18:30:54 wrote: I am going to start using that line.