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I think that I recall seeing that advertised on late, late, late night television, along with the Ronco Glass-Froster, back in 1981!
Q: Whatever you do, 007, please don't push this button!
007: Why? What does it do?
Q: Just don't push it...at least not until you are several miles away; Her Majesty is still rather testy concerning the frightful damage that you did here the last time that you ignored my warning.
007: Why? What does it do?
Q: Just don't push it...at least not until you are several miles away; Her Majesty is still rather testy concerning the frightful damage that you did here the last time that you ignored my warning.
"This one feeds the cat, this one flushes the commode and this one orders more Mixture 79"
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In 1970, my father had one of the Friden/Hitachi desktop calculators in his lab. Cost at the time was close to $1200, which would be over $10k today. Nixie tube display and four memories. I remember it because it was so precious it had it's own room in the lab and in the late 70's, when it was already a worthless brick, he let me dismantle it.
Nice, I wonder if this ones available with a lighter. I smoked cigarettes back when I wore it, would’ve been cool.
In the late ’60s/very early ’70s, my brothers, Tim and Erwin, appropriated my Nerf sponge ball. They took a metal coat hanger, some thin white string from my parents’ Chinese laundry, black masking tape, a block of wood, and two nails, and fashioned a basketball hoop with a realistic tapered net, that attached via the nails in the wood block that went in the holes of the curtain sliders that were mounted in a rail on the underside of the archway between the living room and dining room. This was a year or two before Nerf came out with their Nerfoop. They created a fantasy basketball league and kept stats for a team called the Chickamauga Chickens. We were all assigned fictitious characters—Tim was Zeke Bartkowski, and I was Isaku Izamora, aka “The Zippy Nip” (which would never fly today)—Erwin was the team captain whose nickname was “Playmaker” (I can’t recall the given name, but will ask). A particular pattern on the Oriental rug in the living room was the foul line. We played full games and marked the shots in a ledger Tim created that had Letraset press type on the coloured cardboard covers. To keep accurate stats, Tim spent what seemed like an exorbitant amount of money on a Bowmar Brain. They used this to keep track of all of the shooting stats. Thank you for reviving some fond memories.
Zippy Nip.
Oh, now you’ve done it, Jeff. Never should have let that one out!
-Dan
(Yappy Yid)