notbob > wrote:
>On 2007-08-29, Blair P Houghton > wrote:
>
>> I think you were had. There's no way that person didn't
>> recognize "spaghetti". Just not possible.
>
>You must not interact much with today's astonishingly ignorant kids. I
>had a garage sale and a kid in his late teens or early 20s (gen y?)
>pulled up in his car and asked me if I had any recording equipment. I
>was standing right next to a large stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder.
>I was speechless, so just turned a half-way around and pointed at the
>recorder. He said, "What's that?" This appears to be the norm rather
>then the exception with the latest generation that seems completely
>oblivious to anything beyond the sphere of an ipod or cell phone.

Did you have a big box of wax cylinders to play on it?

--Blair
"How much you get for the button hooks?"