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we were travelling in the uk and the place we stopped at had 10% and the girl had to use a calculator to figure it out
 
This one my friend pulled. Got a speeding ticket decided to pay fine by mail, sent the government a check for the amount of the fine plus 11 cents took a month but his check came back , they asked him to resend the check in the correct amount as they have no way of giving change.
 
I started with a register that had like If you had a price that was $135 you had to push three button the135 at the same time And do that for easy item. You got a total when they gave you a Bill You had to count them their change back from their total up to the Bill They gave You and I still can tell you My change b4 they can with THEIR register
 
When I worked for Fred Meyer cashier's couldn't give 75% off They had to get PIC approval But I showed them that If they They just gave 50% off 2times that would give you 75% but even the customer couldn't understand how it worked
 
Here's a Good 1 for Y'all. You remember that All Famous 8 track Well here You go here isa 4 track and I do have a working player for it and also a 2 track cassette. Unfortunately I don't have a player for it . The 4 track the roller was part of the player hence the hole in it. A little walk down memory lane

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IMO, the 4/8 track really got a bum rap. Audio wise in many ways it was far superior to the cassette that replaced it. Being that the 4/8 track had a much large physical recording surface
(tape width), and the tape moved at twice the speed, and was continuous. That last advantage is a big reason why Disneyworld in the 70's used 4/8 tracks nearly exclusively in one room to do the thousands of unique individual continuous loop sound effects in the entire theme park (it was a very impressive room btw). Wow/flutter was a downside with 4/8 tracks and expected tape jamming at end of useful tape life from being mishandled and often left in hot cars. Cassettes that replaced 4/8 tracks mainly offered smaller/easier packaging, but not inherent better sound quality in the medium. Better studio recording quick progress and the invention of Dolby to help improve cassettes in that era somewhat hid that fact as cassettes became dominant.
 
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Those were the day's when things were built to last Your life time the house I grew up in was arsoned and after authority's released the property to me I was looking at the devastation and found the 4 track player in the ruble. I cleaned it up,dried it out. I was totally amazed that it worked and would play the tapes it was made to last forever
 
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Mark Wainwright said:
Heavens to Mergatroyd!

The other day a not-so-elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old ...But not that old.

Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory when you read this and chuckle.

About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.

These phrases included: Don't touch that dial; Carbon copy; You sound like a broken record; and Hung out to dry.

Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie . We'd put on our best bib and tucker, to straighten up and fly right.

Heavens to Betsy!

Gee whillikers!

Jumping Jehoshaphat!

Holy Moley!

We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley ; and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop, or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when was the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys, and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.

Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!"

We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.

Poof, go the words of our youth. Where have all those great phrases gone?

Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee-high to a grasshopper.
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I want to Thank You for starting this thread it's been a great walk down the lane of yesteryear even tho I lost My Brother and a Friend in the house fire it still has been a Nice Walk Thank You from 76 FD
 
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