It was Dark!

Electricity 103.5

The question arose…HOW DARK WERE THE DARK AGES?

And answered…
It was REALLY DARK!

Electricity was all around them yet nobody could afford to run a line to their shacks from the sky, and they knew not if it was AC or DC?
They typically sat around in the dark waiting for lightning flashes.
That was fine for some people but others didn’t like to get wet.

Then an unpeasant fellow named Bob Delabra invented a place to put candles and the whole world lit up, or at least it would have if he used wood, but he made them out of gold because gold is fireproof, which also made them unaffordable to the average peasant who valued food over extravagancies.
The gold candelabras also went well with chandeliers which were a bit much for mud huts and also unattainable for the same reason as the candle sticks.

An aspiring inventor invented a way to capture daylight in a jar but it always seemed to go away around sundown, and reappeared around dawn?
He spent much of his life’s remainder trying to reverse the process which later day scholars perceived as the first light bulb, which would have given him fame and glory, except it didn’t, until after he passed away, which was of help to no one.
The rest is less distinguishable.

Penwose Out,
By George