I ran across 18v AC of his wrath stripping one side of the phone wire with my teeth on a scheme to capture and store \ use ring voltage to power devices. Free electricity you know.

I don't understand the reference. Can you please explain?

When Thor is calling.

Was that ever a valid pronunciation of gigawatts, or did somebody admit that it was a misreading of the printed word?

Thats good question, I might have to go antiquing to find something to try it out with.... although i suppose I'd have to pay to activate the line so maybe not.

And yeah I ruled out power right away since theres no poka-yoke feature to prevent mixing up hot, neutral, and ground, but "four prong outlet" and reverse image searching weren't getting me there.