In the long term .... The car is cheaper.

And it'll definitely have lower maintenance costs too...

 

What car?

 

What car?

The one being so unthoughtfully scratched by the bimbo...

 

Back up to page 7, Joey.

 

Back up to page 7, Joey.

Oh, that car. The blonde got in eyes.

 

I hadn't noticed she was blonde. I was looking at the reflection on that shinny car.

 

I hadn't noticed she was blonde. I was looking at the reflection on that shinny car.

And it's shiny, too.

 

I hadn't noticed she was blonde. I was looking at the reflection on that shinny car.

And I thought she was a redhead... oh wait... that's the color of the car...

 

She's likely a "suicide blonde" -- dyed by her own hand.

 

She's likely a "suicide blonde" -- dyed by her own hand.

Down here, we call those "bottle blondes"...

 

and we're back on the subject....antique words and phrases.

 

trollop ... there is a word not in common use.

And then there is the ever absent word ... sesquipedalian.

RadioShack ... "you got questions; we got answers" --- to which I replied .... What is the square root of 2?

 

Hello,

There are many OLD books scanned on the internet.
Here is the description of one of them:

Vibrator Power Supply Design, Mallory Company, 1947, 129 pages - Courtesy of anonymous donor

Everything you always wanted to know about vibrators. get your mind out of the gutter! These vibrators were used to make inverter power supplies, taking low-voltage DC (like from a car batter) to generate high voltages to run tubes.

Download full text, 13MB PDF file

This part comes from this page where you can find many more OLD books:
http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm

Bertus

 

There are many OLD books scanned on the internet.

I used to love buying books from Lyndsay Books when the site was still operational. They had plenty of fun and weird stuff.

 

I actually won a photography contest shooting Mt. Rushmore from somewhere around 1/4 mile with Kodachrome 25. Windy day with a very long lens on a tripod. Got 2 out of a 36 roll that weren't blurry. Now, it's so much cheaper to take pictures with a PHD and put them on my computer. The Kodak company better have a new business plan!

LOL, the company I work for owns Kodak, they have a new business plan indeed... google earth sound familiar?
they (could say we, but I had no part in this project) made this bad boy - http://worldview3.digitalglobe.com/
http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/worldview-3/
http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/2014/08/26/worldview-3-first-images/

 

Hello,

What to say about the Dictionary of eletronics terms

This is one of the books available at the internet archive:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection:folkscanomy_electronics&sort=-publicdate

Bertus

 

Come to think of it, I haven't heard the word superheterodyne in a very long time... I wonder if it's still in use...

 

Hello,

Yes, I have heard about it as Superhet.
What about the "direct conversion receiver".

Bertus

 

Customer Service (without waiting on hold for a half hour or more)

Telephone operator

411 (information) - the real 411, not the phrase that kids use.

Yellow Pages

TV Repair man (even used to make house calls)

 

TV Repair man (even used to make house calls)

How about "milkman" ?