Saturday Meme Drop
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I bet you posted the chemistry pun just to see our reaction. Chemistry is a bit contrarian, those that refused to precipitate are part of the solution.
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Was just in Vegas… Visited The Sphere and was IN The Wizard Of Oz… an utterly jaw-dropping, totally immersive experience. Literally was diving for cover during the tornado scene!!!!! :-O and truly felt as if I had been within the “Walls” of the Emerald City and the Wicked Witches castle.
And The Gong Show…. God Bless Chuck Barris…. AGT has become so utterly overblown any more. The original concept was excellent but currently, it’s lost it’s “Amateur” feel big time.
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That Heinlein quote mirrors my experience.
My hippy 5th grade teacher gave me Stranger in a Strange Land to read when I was in 4th grade.
Hippies were all into it cuz they wanted to be VM Smith.
Since I couldn’t speak Martian, I wanted to be Jubal Harshaw.
So a hippy turned me on to the book that I credit with making me a conservative/libertarian/Constitutionalist.That fire dept sign cracked me up, I imagined someone demanding double their fire back.
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Read Stranger in a Strange Land 50 years ago. I still occasionally think about it. I should acquire a copy for my library.
The rest of them brought smiles, especially the fire dept one. Stole a couple to torment some Demonrats I know.
Unferth, that was good.
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Unferth–Today you win the interwebz! That was awesome!
boneman–That sounds like fun! And yes, AGT is too slick now.
Veeshir–Oh the irony! And yeah, I liked the fire department sign.
Nemo–I have it on my shelf next to Fahrenheit 451. Glad you got a laugh and found some to share. And yes, Unferth’s comment was spot-on perfect.
clay–That really brings back some memories!
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Nemo – I have two copies, Heinlein wrote an original but the publishers didn’t like some parts of it. He rewrote it and that was the first “The” Stranger in a Strange Land.
After his death, the original, unedited copy was published (by his widow ) and was made available.
The original differs from the first published edition but either is worth searching out.
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Phil B–Did not know that. I’m going to seek out the original. Thanks!
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I’ll match your play, Clay…I just pulled out a set of like-new 5 1/4″ MS-DOS installation disks. Unfortunately I don’t see a version number anywhere on the factory labels.
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Peaowed–We had to keep them like-new and away from magnets. I had a 5 1/4 that kept losing data that I had in Lotus 1-2-3 because the stand I had next to my storage had a tiny magnet on it. Lost parts of Wordperfect documents too.
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Oh, my dear, you were en fuego today! Bravo.
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I noticed that the Gong Show meme didn’t include the Popsicle Twins. I cannot describe the effect they had on my adolescent self; or, perhaps, I will not, just to be polite.
It was decades later that Jayne Cobb said, “I’ll be in my bunk”.LikeLike
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Animals counting, back when you were allowed to shoot crows as pests: if there was a building close to a favorite crow hang-out tree and someone tried going into the building and wait for them to return, they wouldn’t. If a few people walked in and one stayed inside, they wouldn’t. If several people and a pack of dogs went in and one person stayed, the crows would return. At some point you could max out their counting ability.
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Reading the comments… anyone remember “VISICALC”? The predecessor to Lotus123?
I think it ran on terminals prior to us receiving the HP-150 Desktop “Personal Computers” at Hewlett Packard New Jersey Division back around 1981
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tdm–Muchas gracias! Thanks for stopping by!
TN Budd–Yes, I totally understand where you’re going with that and yes, they were ahead of their time for sure!
Frank–But the fact they could do it is amazing!
boneman–I do not remember VISICALC, but I do remember running SAS on a WANG mini-computer.
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boneman — I remember VisiCalc. I didn’t have to actually use it, but I watched other people play with it. I seem to remember it on an Apple ][.
I remember we played the Ultima series with Lord Byron on the Apple ][ quite a bit. It lead me to write a floppy-disk sector editor. My editor would dump the sector in hex and then allow you to change any value you wanted. Back in the days that, if you wanted to cheat, you had to work for it.
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