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Anne Whateley posted:It was 36-24-36, not 26. Millennials are aware due to Sir Mix-a-Lot, no idea about gen z. How can she lose with the stuff she use Thirty-six, twenty-four, thirty-six oh what a winning hand 'Cause she's a brick house She's mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out She's a brick house Ow, that lady stacked and that's a fact Ain't holding nothing back
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wesleywillis posted:Only if she's 5'3" Beat me to it.
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Working on Jersey Boys, a DJ is doing an intro for one of The Four Season's new hit song, Sherry, and he say's something like, "This one goes out to all you Submarine Watchers out there!" I half caught the line tonight, and it unlocked some ancient memory in my head. I remember my Grandmother telling me many years ago a story that mentioned "Going to watch the Submarine races". The part of New England I grew up in did actually have (abandoned) submarine watch towers, so I thought it was like, a thing? My father years later told me it was a euphemism for basically making out in a parked car.
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Mister Kingdom posted:How can she lose with the stuff she use Also happens to be the combination on Bart Simpson's school locker Extra row of tits posted:I had a very tech illiterate friend that was terrified she would break the computer somehow, costing millions to repair. After much cajoling and explaining there was nothing she could do to the computer that we could not fix, that it was effectively impossible for her to break one she agreed to go to a "PC for beginners" class. Was her name Newton Pulsifer by any chance? Hotel Kpro fucked around with this message at 03:52 on May 18, 2022 |
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May 18, 2022 03:50
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Waaaay back in the days of AT PSUs it was possible to plug them into the motherboard offset-by-one-pin. Said board didn't work so well after that.
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Suddenly I'm flashing back to 20 years ago, using a disembodied ATX PSU to power things via the Molex plugs without a motherboard attached. To turn it on, you stick a bent paperclip into its connector plug, shorting the only green wire to any black wire. A trick which, for all I know, may still work. (I've fallen so far out of hardware hacking it isn't even funny.)
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thrakkorzog posted:I mean old TVs really just kind of worked by magic. I remember adjusting antennas and then as you stepped a foot away, losing all reception. Dude's TV just needed a friend
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May 18, 2022 09:36
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Emotional support TV.
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Powered Descent posted:Suddenly I'm flashing back to 20 years ago, using a disembodied ATX PSU to power things via the Molex plugs without a motherboard attached. To turn it on, you stick a bent paperclip into its connector plug, shorting the only green wire to any black wire. Still works. I did it at the weekend to power a homemade foam cutter.
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Sweevo posted:Still works. I did it at the weekend to power a homemade foam cutter.
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Powered Descent posted:And now I'm suddenly wondering if the metric-using world had an equivalent expression that used centimeters. 90-60-90 would be the closest round numbers, I think. As the dad joke goes: "90-60-90, and the other leg too"
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thrakkorzog posted:I mean old TVs really just kind of worked by magic. I remember adjusting antennas and then as you stepped a foot away, losing all reception. If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
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Hotel Kpro posted:Also happens to be the combination on Bart Simpson's school locker And the phone number to call if you need dirty deeds done dirty cheap.
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There's a line in Nelly's 'must be the money' where he says that her measurements are 36-25-34 The genius lyrics annotation for that line says "Nelly is describing his boo as a scalene triangle" and I find that very funny
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Splicer posted:Me, a youth, "Huh, what does this switch at the back of the power thing dBANG oh right duh that makes sense" This one was a lot less dangerous in Europe.
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feedmegin posted:This one was a lot less dangerous in Europe. Splicer fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 18, 2022 |
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Power supply talk reminded me of this: http://www.mdawson.net/vic20chrome/vic20.php I immediately started typing "10 print " and shift-' brought up a square closing bracket. I only had the briefest thought of "Oh right, different keyboards" as I involuntarily pressed shift-2 to get the double-quote. How the hell? I haven't touched Commodore keyboard in over 35 years.
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Ironhead posted:Working on Jersey Boys, a DJ is doing an intro for one of The Four Season's new hit song, Sherry, and he say's something like, "This one goes out to all you Submarine Watchers out there!" 
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Ironhead posted:Working on Jersey Boys, a DJ is doing an intro for one of The Four Season's new hit song, Sherry, and he say's something like, "This one goes out to all you Submarine Watchers out there!" I always heard they were called "submarine races" because the goal was to, ahem, go down as fast as possible. No idea if that's the authentic etymology, though.
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I think the joke is that you park next to a body of water to make out, and when someone bangs on your window you say you're watching the submarine races (because submarines are under water) (and can't be seen).
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I think the joke is that you park next to a body of water to make out, and when someone bangs on your window you say you're watching the submarine races (because submarines are under water) (and can't be seen). Well not with that attitude they can't.
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Maybe it's got something to do with "little man in a boat"
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My Lovely Horse posted:Maybe it's got something to do with "little man in a boat" nerds got that covered, he's an easy boss bro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGJkfwq8uoI
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Analytic Engine posted:nerds got that covered, he's an easy boss bro
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Splicer posted:Bring a friend so the two of you can work your bone dudes nowhere near it followed by some perfunctory tag teaming + cleanup? Sounds like a plan, but TBH I've never had the heart to finish him off. To paraphrase Colonel Gathers: mournful tibias
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Friend posted:This is sort of a reverse of the thread in that it is old media that was probably fine back then but looks dumb now, but I'm watching The Ring and a character is searching the internet for information, and the url in the browser is shown several times to be "C:\WIN98\Desktop\search.com\horseshow.html" There was a discussion in some thread (maybe it was this one?) that the average person is actually less aware of file directories nowadays than they were in previous years.
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It was maybe this article from September 2021. Although from my experience as a college student in basically the same cohort as the students in this article I didn't know anyone as clueless as the people they found. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
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Do you mean to imply that the morons in Jay Leno's Jaywalking segments weren't all that dumb, and some of them were handpicked and/or studio plants?
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POV: You're watching the meaning of the word POV change before your very eyes.
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Another one from the newspaper comic strip thread:Slammy posted:Cat Tales August 27, 1925 When you travel, your suitcase acquires large stickers featuring the names of the places you've been. (Made into a joke here, but the labels were obviously recognizable enough to base the joke on.) So... what were those things anyway? If they were something like routing labels for checked bags, you'd think it'd be super confusing to leave them on after that leg of the trip, but world travelers always seem to have a bunch of them.
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Powered Descent posted:Another one from the newspaper comic strip thread: You'd have your name, cabin on the ship, destination, sometimes address on them. A porter would be carrying your bag around. See here for a good example. I've owned a suitcase that had the original owners information from his passage from the Netherlands to Canada still legible on it.
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Whoa! I always thought that gag was just that you'd buy a sticker and slap it on your suitcase. I always wanted a hard-sided suitcase so I could do that
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Although ocean liners also put similar stickers on luggage, more often they were placed on the luggage by the hotels as a form of advertising, usually with the name of the hotel and the city or country where it was located.
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The hotels also used to give out bag tags that you could put on the handle of your suitcase. You put your name and address on one side, and the hotel logo was on the other.
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MightyJoe36 posted:The hotels also used to give out bag tags that you could put on the handle of your suitcase. You put your name and address on one side, and the hotel logo was on the other. Some still do that, when I did an inclusive Disney Resort trip about 10 years ago they sent me a luggage tag with my ticket package. I used it for quite awhile, until my work gave me a fancy leather one as a travel gift.
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For some time in the eighties you'd go to a theme park and they'd slap a sticker on your car in the parking lot without asking. I don't know how normal that was, though I do remember noticing cars having more tourist destination stickers on them as a kid and then that falling out of fashion somehow. It angered my father greatly.
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MightyJoe36 posted:The hotels also used to give out bag tags that you could put on the handle of your suitcase. You put your name and address on one side, and the hotel logo was on the other. In the days when international travel was mainly for the well-off, they'd often vacation for quite long periods and they tended to travel with a lot more luggage than we would today. So it was common to send Luggage In Advance - you (more accurately your servants...) would do all your packing and then that luggage would be sent a few days ahead of you so it would be at your hotel when you arrived, so you only had to actually travel with a smaller suitcase or trunk for your journey. As well as your luggage attracting various labels from the courier/railway/shipping lines that carried it to your destination, it was common for hotels to slap a sticker or label on each item of luggage as it arrived as proof of receipt and to record who owned what piece, which room it was to go to and on which date. Those labels were often very colourful bits of advertising in their own right. If you were dispatching luggage for a sea journey you could also designate items as 'wanted on voyage' so they'd be in your cabin when you boarded rather than in the baggage hold. Which was an opportunity for another set of labels, again often used as an advertising medium for the shipping line. And human nature being what it always is, right from the start of practical international travel in the 19th century people have liked to collect labels as a record of where they've been, what hotels they stayed at and which ships and trains they've travelled on.
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Flipperwaldt posted:For some time in the eighties you'd go to a theme park and they'd slap a sticker on your car in the parking lot without asking. I don't know how normal that was, though I do remember noticing cars having more tourist destination stickers on them as a kid and then that falling out of fashion somehow. It angered my father greatly. Oh yeah In the 70's-80's cheap roadside tourist attractions would put cardboard placards on the front bumper of visiting cars (back when cars had actual bumpers on the front) so as they drove away vehicles approaching in the opposite direction would see them. I remember driving up the California coast as a kid and seeing all the cars coming towards us with "Trees of Mystery", "Mystery Spot" and "Seal Caverns" placards on their front bumpers. 
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