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"Flash drive" doesn't quite conjure the same type of humor, does it? "Memory stick" maybe, but you have to work harder for it.
Better make good use of it before it's nothing but a memory, eh?
"Flash drive" doesn't quite conjure the same type of humor, does it? "Memory stick" maybe, but you have to work harder for it.
Who among us has ever actually met a dog named "Fido" or "Rover?"
Daughter in law had a Phideaux. I'd like to at least think that she wasn't trying to be "ironic" in some way.Who among us has ever actually met a dog named "Fido" or "Rover?"
Well, mine is named "Buddy"Who among us has ever actually met a dog named "Fido" or "Rover?"
At least in NYC, the dogs now have very "important" sounding names - "Hudson," "Bentley" and "Beethoven" are quite common. And, nope, never met a "Fido" or "Rover."
There's a "Beethoven" in our building and, while I have no idea about his composition skills, I do know the dog can poop up a storm.
Beethoven probably falls more along the lines of Scooby and Lassie due to the “popularity” of the movie franchise about the Saint Bernard.
*sigh*raises hand* I have. I forget the exact circumstances, but a whole lot of years ago my wife and I attended a birthday party for someone at a local park, and as we were being introduced to the people we didn't know one couple who had brought their dog told us his name was Rover. When I asked, "Seriously?" they sheepishly replied, "Yeah, that's what we get for letting the kids name the dog."Who among us has ever actually met a dog named "Fido" or "Rover?"
One of the families up the street from us has a dog named Marley, after the 2008 movie Marley & Me; another case of letting the kids name the dog. Unlike the dog in the movie, theirs is an obnoxious Chihuahua that barks like an Ewok.Beethoven probably falls more along the lines of Scooby and Lassie due to the “popularity” of the movie franchise about the Saint Bernard.
I have a restored RCA console from 1938 in my office that I listen to for a couple of hours every morning, and it uses a metal 6F6 audio final -- that tube burns out every six months and has to be replaced. It's turned into a bit of an experiment -- I've tried old stock RCA new-in-box tubes with manufacturing codes dating from the late thirties to the mid-seventies, I've tried military surplus WW2 new in box tubes, and I've tried RCA 1621 tubes -- the industrial high-performance version of the 6F6. All of them have failed within six months.
I think some of this may be poor circuit design in the radio -- they're driving the speaker with a single output tube rather than using twin tubes in push-pull, and it by design runs hotter than it should. But the metal tubes, because they dissipate heat so poorly, seem like they were designed to fail sooner than later.
RCA pushed these tubes hard during the late thirties as the next big thing in radio, with a notable lack of success in doing so. I suspect their reputation for poor durability was established early on, but they had invested so much on development and advertising that they had to push forward even though the product was inferior to glass tubes. I have an RCA table model from a couple years earlier in my bedroom, using a very similar circuit except with a smaller speaker and a type 42 output tube -- which is basically an earlier, glass-envelope, six-pin version of the 6F6. I listen to this set for a couple of hours every night, and the output tube is the same one that was in it when I bought the radio thirty-three years ago.
"And how!"
Haven't heard that in ages.
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Sadly, "the kids" would probably see it the other way 'round. They've been bombarded with constant sensory overload from the moment their lives started through numerous electronic devices, and many of them haven't developed the patience required to watch a story unfold if it takes longer than 60 seconds.Three Stooges - 1936 - Whoops I’m An Indian
Check it at 11 minutes. Kids' TV today is pretty lame by comparison. Why, when I was a boy ...
I have no children (and by extension, no grandchildren) but where I was watching Popeye and The Three Stooges, I get the impression that what kids see today is along the lines of "My Little Pony". And that is pretty lame compared to The Flintstones, which was inspired by The Honeymooners, another one I watched as a boy. And what today is as sophisticated as Rocky and Bullwinkle?Sadly, "the kids" would probably see it the other way 'round. They've been bombarded with constant sensory overload from the moment their lives started through numerous electronic devices, and many of them haven't developed the patience required to watch a story unfold if it takes longer than 60 seconds.
... And what today is as sophisticated as Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Many years ago a friend and I visited the Dudley Do-Right Emporium on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Owned and operated by Jay Ward whose studio (Jay Ward Productions) produced Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, George of the Jungle, and other animated shows for television, one of his daughters was working there that day. Naturally, the three of us engaged in conversation about the shows and some of our favorite moments, and she told us that the modus operandi at the studio was very simple--if the majority of writers and animators thought a visual or verbal joke was funny, it stayed in the cartoon. So they essentially produced cartoons that they thought were funny, and if anyone else thought they were funny, so much the better. Fortunately for them a lot of people shared and/or appreciated their sense of humor, and they found an audience....And what today is as sophisticated as Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Add to that, "Rex."Who among us has ever actually met a dog named "Fido" or "Rover?"
Add to that, "Rex."
At least in NYC, the dogs now have very "important" sounding names - "Hudson," "Bentley" and "Beethoven" are quite common. And, nope, never met a "Fido" or "Rover."
There's a "Beethoven" in our building and, while I have no idea about his composition skills, I do know the dog can poop up a storm.