Good. Power cords should roam free.
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Topologically, the cord was never under the bar, in the first place.
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Just wait till happy hour.
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Great trick for making people think they are learning something useful. Calling it a weird trick these days would get the meaning across better.
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Burn her.
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It’s not trapped at all (as others have noted). Just think of the plug as one end of a U-shape and pull both ends toward the cactus. The bottom of the U is now free along with the entire cord.
Nah, most people aren’t that credulous. They’ll get the joke. (whistles nervously)
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Very small rocks!
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We don’t need no stinking wires!
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Nope. The real trick is to do the reverse of this to get the plug under the frame but with the extra loop going over, so you can undo it later. I have an old copy of Henry Ernest Dudeny’s “Puzzles and Curious Problems”, - he’s got a whole chapter on knotting and topology. There is one with string looped through the handles of scissors that always seems impossible when I come back to it.
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From looking at it, it’s not hard to get a cord into the initial state even when its just going under once. Stop the film when it’s in the initial state and look for a bit. You should be able to see how. It would’ve been nice if she showed that step as well!
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Still could be handy, if the furniture in question is too damn heavy to move, and you don’t mind the loop… and I can figure out how to do it in reverse… 
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Yeah, the cord is not actually under the bar at the beginning
Curation staff alert, aisle 5!!!
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That’s like fixing a fixing a flat tire by standing up a good tire and building a new car onto it.
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Need much more stuff like this for your “Directory of mostly wonderful things.”
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Just spent a week sailing with Boy Scouts. The hardest thing for them was tying the cleat hitch [https://www.animatedknots.com/cleat-hitch-halyard-knot] which looks very similar to what was employed in the video. Some peoples brains don’t twist that way.
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Your link has a repeated “halyard-knot” at the end that leads to a Page Not Found.
Here’s the proper one. https://www.animatedknots.com/cleat-hitch-halyard-knot
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Thanks for clearing that up!
Make sure to buy the wire cutters from a cool tools referral link for max BB karma.
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