RMS Watts
First of all, J.C. Watts is an Oklahoma politician. I don't know WHY they named that unit of measure after him. Oh, wait. Some guy looking over my shoulder just corrected me.
Isaac Watts (1687-1748) was a great church hymn writer(e.g., O God Our Help In Ages Past, Joy To the World, et. al.), one of the great musicians of the world, and hence the term for watts as Peak Music Power and ..... oh, wait .... some other clown behind me is saying that's a bunch of bunk. He says ...
Oh, James Watt, the steam engine developer was the one for whom the watt was named and ..... wait a minute ..... what? Another opinion? What do you mean, it was named after the Watts area of racial riot fame? Power to the people? That's where it came from? Wait a minute ....
Now my daughter is telling me that she thinks the term is named after the guy who invented light bulbs .... you know .... his name is stamped on every one of them .... 40, 60, 75, 100 .... and I thought that had something do to with the price.
Wats dat? Oh. RMS Watts isn't the real term that should be used anyway. Neither is Peak Watts, or watts music power. It's supposed to be "Watts DARIOT" .... that's, "watts, Dean's and Ron's Idea Of Truth". Ron, I forget that between the two of us, we have all the world's knowledge. Yeah, folks, we're THAT old. Come to think of it, I just had my birthday yesterday, January 12th.
"Gimme dat ol' time Social Security, gimme dat ol' time Social Security, ..... it's [gotta] be good enough for me."
Dean