Capt. Neal® wrote:

Do something for me. Take a flashlight that uses two AA batteries in
series and put
a discharged ni-cad AA cell and a fully charged ni-cad into it. Turn on
the switch and
let it run for about ten minutes. Remove the batteries and check them
with a volt
meter. You will find the dead cell is no longer dead. Some of the

*******eletrons flowing through it******** in the circuit driven by the
good battery will have driven

From the mouths of babes...or, in this case, cretins. Thus does the
good Cap'n put paid to his own ludicrous 'theory'. Methinks the boy may
have seen the light :-) Oops, sorry, had an attack of blind screamin'
optimism there for a moment.

Keith