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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...a device for making evenly spaced straight lines on a chalkboard: useful when teaching Palmer method cursive writing to second graders...
    Or for correctly spaced music lines (staves) on blackboards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    In our old car, I recall it was for the windscreen washer but it's a vague memory now.
    I had a MK1 Escort that had a foot operated windscreen washer.
    Last edited by Barty; 05-12-2020 at 11:37 PM. Reason: fucked up the tense of had and have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    high-beam activator for car headlights
    Called a "dip switch", as you say to change from full to dipped headlights and back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...a device for making evenly spaced straight lines on a chalkboard: useful when teaching Palmer method cursive writing to second graders...
    Thanks, I see the chalk now in the holders. We were taught cursive writing from printed sheets, which we had to copy over and over again...in my case with a fountain pen to ensure I didn't swap back to my left hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    No, LPs were 33 an singles 45 - never used 16, nor saw one
    I was weaned on 78s.

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    Guess I'm old, but I don't get #4. Looks like some generic shelving to me.

    And #19, they don't give out gov't cheese anymore?

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    ...#4: a line of telephone stations with equipment removed...

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Wow and Flutter, Direct drive vs Belt drive, stroboscopes & styluses, Linn Sondek platters. If you don't know what any of these mean it's not because you are young. It's because you are dumb.
    Ah, Linn Sondek. My dad bought one of these after my mum won a nice teak cabinet to store 33rpm records, but had nothing to play them on. He built a Heathkit audio amplifier and a large woofer speaker that weighed several hundredweight. My mum bought lots of Greek folk music LPs to remind her of our annual holidays in Corfu. To this day, Greek folk music is my favourite background music, (just like the Cheese Shop sketh in Monty Python).
    Groping women when you're old is fine - everyone thinks you're senile

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon43 View Post
    just like the Cheese Shop sketh in Monty Python
    ...how's that lisp coming along?...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...how's that lisp coming along?...
    Pretthy good....

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Called a "dip switch", as you say to change from full to dipped headlights and back.
    Well done OhOh. Did you have one on your rickshaw.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Well done OhOh. Did you have one on your rickshaw.



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