We just discovered – guess how – that our toaster oven has a detent beyond "off" that goes to a setting called (I paraphrase) "Thank you for choosing this setting. Yes, I would be happy to stay on forever while you go out of the room to answer a phone call."
I cannot imagine who could possibly have thought this configuration made sense.
On the plus side, our smoke detector works great.
I call that setting "baked potatos for two."
jg
I'd be pretty torqued off if I bought a toaster oven that didn't have a setting which I'd refer to as "on"...
Assuming it has some sort of temp setting, of course, and that "on" is not synonymous with "full bore with temperature continuing to rise past broil, clean, and on to incinerator"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86hc1ADnp6s
Ransom, I agree with you. OFF on this thing is at 9 o'clock on a rotary switch. Various kinds of ON are available clockwise from 9 o'clock around to 6 o'clock. However, counterclockwise from OFF at 9 o'clock back to 8 o'clock gets you "ON FOREVER." No detent or anything. So a vigorous or hurried move to OFF gets you, um, a lot more than you bargained for.
Unplug when not in use. Owners manual may agree.
the one in our office is the same way, thats why its called a toaster oven. the timer side is the toaster, the "on forever" side is the oven.
Anyone else here LOVE the smell of burnt toast? 
PNDLR isn't too bad.
It's the early ones that won't let you shift into R without first shifting into L (BUT NOT D!) and rolling forward a little bit, and DON'T BUMP THE SHIFTER UP or you'll have to do it all over again, that make you wonder "what the hell were they thinking?"
In other news, I got to drive a really nice '41 Cadillac earlier this year.
I hate all those gated shifters in the cars I rent.
Going from D back to P takes forever and as a traveling sales man I am always stopping and running into seeing customers and I can never get it bck into P.
Its the PRND2L patterns where 2 gives you 1-2 and not just 2nd gear that really bother me.
Who the hell thought this was a logical idea?
Park---Reverse---Neutral---Drive 2-3---Drive 1-2-3---Low
Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed wasn't just a hatchet job on the Corvair.
You may also thank Mr. Nader for what lead to DOT Standard # 102 - Transmission Shift Position Sequence Starter Interlock, and Transmission Braking Effect.
That's the ghetto, space heater detent.
Woody wrote:
Hey, a Cruise-o-Matic. I have a column shift version in my 62. It has the same PRNwhitedotgreendotL pattern. More than the shift pattern, I'm concerned with the fact that Ford thought whitedot and greendot made any berkelying sense, would be universally recognized timeless symbols, and never cause any confusion ever.
"What gear you in?"
"Greendot."
"Aw hell, you oughta be in whitedot, son!"
I noticed with my window fans. They go off - full - med - low. Why the illogic of going from off to full bore?
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