Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers!
mattathayde had written this in response to
------------------------------------- Storm> Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at
im 20
1- something that played records, its analogue and the sound is transferred from the record grooves via needle2-dial phone, you mean a rotary phone? before the tone system was developed it used clicks to relay the numbers to the system by turning the dial to the number
3-one of the biggest musical groups, basically brought "rock and roll" to the us4-8 track, predecessor to the cassette tape which had 8 "Tracks" of information on them
5- wwi wwii, Korea, nam was a conflict technically not a war, gulf "war" also a conflict, and if you want to try and count the cold war you can go a head there too6- inflation, money loses value, come on now that is something a 10 year old should understand
7- cheapest gas for sure was 70 cents that i specifically remember but that was when i was about 10 so i know i saw gas cheaper than that when i was little8- the draft was when people were forced to serve in the military
9- before computers, by hand/eye type writer for typing10- the same way people still send letters, USPS
-matt
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I'm not -that- old, but try previous generations' questions:
What is a Victrola?
How did you connect before dials? On party lines?
Who were the Carter Family?
What is a wire recorder?
When did we last invade and occupy Nicaragua?
How much was the most expensive Titanic ticket, corrected for inflation? My father and I compared how long we had to work to buy a shirt or loaf of bread, him in the 1920's and me in the 1970's. They were almost equal.
I've paid $0.18 / gal.
What incident began the National Guard?
What's a Comptometer?
What's a fountain pen? A Biro?
jsw
Tiger Woods.
One you can use as soap.
Cousins to the cockroaches.
This depends - There are 8 track cartridge players AND 8 track recorders used for recording musicians.
Depends on whose definitions of "major war" you use. There have been at least 145 conflicts with death totals over 20,000 persons.
What happens if you get breast implants.
All you can eat Tacos at Golden Corral- $5.00
What happens when someone doesn't close the door...
Depends on what room you are in at the time!!!
Morse Code
How many did I get right....
Just playing devil's advocate...
Needles are dangerous and evidence of drug use. Report it to DEA!
Numbers running is illegal. Call the cops!
Rock and Roll is the devil's music. Call a Priest!
Tracks are evidence of drug use. See #1
Killing yellow and brown people is morally wrong. But rich people like it...
Is it on YouTube yet?
$10 a gallon gas would reduce wasteful driving by rich people.
Slavery - pure and simple. And see #5.
What are you talking about? Computers have always been here!
Letter? You mean like Texting?
I don't know ANY of these.
Dear Twenty, Please lose the web interface, and figure out how to post to usenet.
Hmm. Well, I guess, somehow you continue to exist. Without all this essential information.
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:54:56 -0500, the infamous "Buerste" scrawled the following:
If you can remember, ask your SomesHeimers doctor about risperidone or quetiapine, Tawm.
-- It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. -- Agnes Repplier
After your time? (darned new-fangled rubbish :)
Mark Rand RTFM
You know the answers to all the fabricated questions, but you don't know what Usenet is. Tsk.
mattathayde had written this in response to
------------------------------------- Steve Ackman wrote:
you mean the horribly outdated system that is used here, where there is no central server or administration so there is no way to regulate the bs right wing propaganda that is spewed out here along with the random spam. the system that was replaced 20 years ago by BBS, which has since been replaced by forums that are actually useable and keep things in an order so that you can actually keep up with a thread?
-matt
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Aw, come on. Rock & Roll was created in the US. The Beatles were the most popular of the British groups that revived R&R here after the decline of same at the end of the 50s - Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran dead, Jerry Lee & Chuck Berry in scandals, Little Richard in one of his religious phases, Elvis in the army (or, later, recording pap). The early 60s was a dismal time for R&R in the USA.
The Beatles also were largely responsible for spreading the idea of pushing the boundaries of what constituted rock music, although there were others, independant of the Beatles, who also participated in the "progressive rock" movement. (One of my passions.)
Wrong - it was a device that distributed lots of shiny streamers along highways throughout the US. Also known as a POS.
I thought the draft was a way to increase the population of Canada.
Pretty good knowledge for a young punk...
Joe
If you don't like it here, GO AWAY! ...lew...
Or try to contribute and improve the atmosphere. As it is, there's nothing to lose by trying.
The attribute appears to say that you are answering yourself. On any decent newsreadery you can change that to be more accurate.
Kill files work very nicely on my newsreader.
Interesting then that BBS is dead, yet Usenet is still going.
Threading works fine on my newsreaders. I suggest you try slrn, or if you need the GUI, Pan is almost as good.
So you have a vague idea what Usenet is. You just don't know the benefits of an actual newsreader (yet?). Thread any way you like. Filter anyone you choose.
You can't do either on a phpbbb/phorum... or newsleeches. You complain about the very method you use to post to Usenet, yet you keep doing it. Tsk.
Giganews has 597,036 news:rec.crafts.metalworking messages right now, going back to 2003.
This isn't a 'fourm', dumbass. You are using a half assed web based portal to access USENET.
For instance, Giganews has over 109,000 different newsgroups while 'Ritter' has only four.
In case you are too stupid to notice, there is still "no central server or administration so there is no way to regulate the bs right wing propaganda that is spewed out here along with the random spam." The messages are propogated all over the world to thousands of news servers.
Any decent newsreader does proper threading. I've used Netscape's software for at least 12 years.
The cheapest that I ever paid was $0.29 9/10. I'm not sure whether there was a gas war going on at the time or not.
Northe
94 cents a gallon around 1995
$0.259 Dec., 1968, Grand Ledge, MI. Yes, there was a gas war. And my tank (MG Midget) held 7.2 gallons US. I paid by credit card.
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