[Gllug] Two Questions

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:33 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:

>    CRT's can collect more dust as there are high voltages around, and they
> can also suffer from a defocussed image after a while. Both can be sorted
> fairly easily.
>    It is usually safe to remove the power and use a little watered down
> washing up liquid to clean the screen, but there is always a continual
> slight leakage of very high voltage charge to the front of the glass even
> when switched off. 
Someone once told me this was why geeks are spotty.
The image charge from the screen causes dust to be attracted to your
face.

I suspect this was a shaggy (or spotty) dog story.

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