Wiardgroup

Here is a picture of the Wigginton Voltage Tester

http://ssl.linuxbeach.net/cgi-bin/LinuxBeach/R5008.html

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "grantrichter2001" <grichter@a...> wrote:
> I love the new Dashboard in OS X Tiger. I think somebody should write a noise maker as a 
> dashboard widget. How about a "Woggle Bug widget". ha, ha
> 
> Incidentally, my father told me the word "widget" comes from the Wigginton Voltage Tester 
> made by the Square D company. Wigginton was too long to say, and the electricians started 
> calling them "wiggets" which morphed into "widget".
> 
> Anyone else heard a similar urban legend?