On Apr 19, 6:13*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:40:16 -0700 (PDT), Chemo the Clown
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> >On Apr 19, 2:24*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
> >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:44:50 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
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> >> >On Apr 18, 5:12*pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> >> >> 82 years old and rocked the whole time!!
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> >> >Seems like yesterday we'd rush home from school and tune in Bandstand
> >> >on the old black and white 12 incher. *We got to know the kids names,
> >> >who dated whom etc. *He'd have pop singers on, lip synching of course,
> >> >to their hits.
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> >> >We learned the hits and dances by watching AB.
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> >> > I recently had to describe a 45 spindle to a 17 year old and the
> >> >difference between it and owning many adapters.
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> >> One of those spindles for 45's that functoned with the record changing
> >> mechanism on the skinny little 33 spindle?
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> >> I remember those now that you mention them!
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> >> John Kuthe...
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> >Remember the little plastic inserts you could put in the 45 hole so it
> >would work on the spindle?
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> Of course. They were in direct conflict with the 45 changer spindle we
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> So nice back in the old days when all you had to do to deal with
> incompatability was to get a little hunk of plastic. Now you have to
> get a program to convery the incompatable format to a compatable one!
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> That's the nice thing about standards. We have so many to choose from!
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> John Kuthe...

Life sucks when you're poor, Johny.