"T" > wrote in message
. ..
> In article >, says...
>> "notbob" > wrote in message
>> . ..
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > nb
>>
>> Cut the kid some slack they haven't made a reel to reel recorder since
>> before he was probably born. LOL Actually the last one I bought was back
>> in
>> about 1980 and they where hard to find then.
>>
>> Joe Cilinceon
>>
>>
>>
>
> Cassette tapes are next. Honestly, when is the last time you saw a
> casette player/recorder.
>

I'm a 100% HD and HDDVD. I have been for about 2 years including my
computer's TV card and monitor are HD. I see one once in a while in a used
car though I have a 90 mustang GT that has a CD player in it. I also have a
VCR to DVD recorder so I could get my old VCR over to DVD.

Joe Cilinceon

"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Dee Dee said...
>
>>
>> "Joe Cilinceon" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> "notbob" > wrote in message
>>> . ..
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> nb
>>>
>>> Cut the kid some slack they haven't made a reel to reel recorder since
>>> before he was probably born. LOL Actually the last one I bought was
>>> back in about 1980 and they where hard to find then.
>>>
>>> Joe Cilinceon
>> I try to put myself in their place - as I remember an old thick record
>> that we used to play of Caruso singing something famous. I was 11,
>> brought up in the hicks to be a hick and 'they' were astounded that I
>> didn't know who he was.
>>
>> Perhaps people are just as deprived today in some parts as they were a
>> half-century ago - both schools and home.
>> Dee Dee
>
>
> Our family was somehow gifted with an OLD crank-wind record player. The
> stylus amounted to nothing more than little nails.
>
> The records were heavy double sided vinyl with a metal plate in the
> middle,
> probably 10" diameter.
>
> The unit was approximately 2'w x 2'd x 4' tall.
>
> It spun moldy-oldies at variable speeds, iirc, up to 78 rpms.
>
> Andy

Yes when I was about 5 or 6 our family got the first TV in the neighborhood,
an RCA. We had 2 channels a few hours each day. Every Saturday morning every
kid in the neighborhood was on our living room floor watching a 12 to 13
inch black and white screen. It weight at least 200 lbs in a mahogany
cabinet. It had a radio (AM only) and 3 record players one for 75, 45 and
33 because they didn't have the know how yet to build one to do all. Oh and
45 was a brand new media. My kids ranged where pretty young when the first
PC came out and have never seen a rotary dial phone. I also remember every
phone with 5 digit phone # and a party line. My first car came with an AM/FM
radio and I put an 8 track in it. The last TV I purchased for my bedroom is
a 32" LCD HD and weighted about 20 lbs.

Now I barely remember Truman being president or the Korean war however I was
born in '46. My great grandmother lived from about the civil war long enough
to see the US land on the moon so it really is what you live through and not
what you are told about in school if at all.

Joe Cilinceon

"Joe Cilinceon" > wrote in message
...

I also have a
> VCR to DVD recorder so I could get my old VCR over to DVD.
>
> Joe Cilinceon
How long did it take you to do that? I thought we would never get finished.

And we ended up giving boxes-boxes-boxes of videos to the libraries. It's
funny, but we separated the ones that we gave to our local Virginia library
from the ones we gave to DH's hometown library.

I'm not looking forward to doing it again with DVD's when they change
again -- those devils will surely do it soon.

Actually I prefer watching DVD's on the computer as I like the software
program instead of the stupid remote. I can't tell you what it is now
because I'm downloading an audio program.

I've not gone to Tivo because I don't want to have to take the time to dump
onto DVD, because everything I record, it is something that I want to keep.

What do you do?
Dee Dee

Dee Dee

"T" > wrote in message
. ..
.. There are these HUGE - ass
>> color double - page spreads by Chef Boyardee and the like promoting
>> "Ravioli -- now in a CAN...!!!". It's presented like some kind of
>> space age miracle...pretty interesting, that age of Madison Avenue
>> overkill.
>

My mother about 1951 decided that she liked that stuff in a can; and was
able to recreate it. She actually boiled the spaghetti in her sauce
(probably used tomato soup) , and boiled it - and boiled it --

The first time I tasted real spaghetti was in 1955. I was astounded!

Long time memory. That's a bad sign.
Dee Dee

"Dee Dee" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Joe Cilinceon" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> I also have a
>> VCR to DVD recorder so I could get my old VCR over to DVD.
>>
>> Joe Cilinceon
> How long did it take you to do that? I thought we would never get
> finished.
>
> And we ended up giving boxes-boxes-boxes of videos to the libraries. It's
> funny, but we separated the ones that we gave to our local Virginia
> library from the ones we gave to DH's hometown library.
>
> I'm not looking forward to doing it again with DVD's when they change
> again -- those devils will surely do it soon.
>
> Actually I prefer watching DVD's on the computer as I like the software
> program instead of the stupid remote. I can't tell you what it is now
> because I'm downloading an audio program.
>
> I've not gone to Tivo because I don't want to have to take the time to
> dump onto DVD, because everything I record, it is something that I want to
> keep.
>
> What do you do?
> Dee Dee
>
> Dee Dee
>

I just do the recording in the background from my main TV in the living
room. I put in the tape and a new DVD and hit record. The average 2 hour VHS
takes about 30 minutes to record to DVD. All my DVD players (I have 2 the
one above and one in my bedroom) are HD and play none HD in a format that
upgrades the picture to almost HD quality.

I don't have Tivo either because my computer has Media Center on it and if I
want to record I do it there. It takes about 30 minutes again to record a 2
hour movie to DVD on my computer using Nero 7. I also have a Samsung DVD
video camera that uses the mini dual layer DVD-RW/DVD+RW which I simply put
in my DVD player/recorder on the computer and copy to any format I want. I
don't have to plug in the camera at all just put the mini disk in the center
indented area of my DVD player.

Joe Cilinceon

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?"

Ophelia > wrote:
>In our supermarket, I am often asked by the (young) check out operator the
>name of simple vegetables. Peppers, leeks and broccoli are just some!

No, that I understand. I was nearly 40 before I realized the
produce section was a thriving part of that business. To me,
cooking was the distance between peeling back the foil and
grabbing a fork.

--Blair

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:24:15 -0400, "Joe Cilinceon"
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Cut the kid some slack they haven't made a reel to reel recorder since
>>> before he was probably born. LOL Actually the last one I bought was back
>>> in
>>> about 1980 and they where hard to find then.
>>>
>>> Joe Cilinceon
>>>
>> Cassette tapes are next. Honestly, when is the last time you saw a
>> casette player/recorder.
>>
>
>I'm a 100% HD and HDDVD. I have been for about 2 years including my
>computer's TV card and monitor are HD. I see one once in a while in a used
>car though I have a 90 mustang GT that has a CD player in it. I also have a
>VCR to DVD recorder so I could get my old VCR over to DVD.
>
>Joe Cilinceon
>

heh. i'd be satisfied converting my beta tapes to v.h.s.

your pal,
blake

What a thread! I guess it's probably a troll too. But, FWIW:

1. If the poster happened to be serious about "from the time I was born 50
years ago it was called spaghetti ... all of a sudden it seems the name has
changed to pasta," the poster has not been paying attention. The word,
"pasta," has been common in the US for generations. The Gourmet Cook Book
(1950) is older than 50 years ago. By the 1960s if not earlier, "Pasta" was
in chapter titles in the most common US cookbooks.

2. More ironically: First posting on this newsgroup was "pasta
suggestions." In case anyone has missed it or its repostings:

http://tinyurl.com/9cr29

Note that it was written for a fixed-spaced font. Some of the directions
are to the right, with ad-hoc brackets to show what ingredients they apply
to. (That was before Steve wrote the -MU recipe-typesetting macros for
troff, and a later package for Macintosh.)

In article >,
"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:


> I have a serious question. In most schools, there is a problem with the
> water fountains. They're adjusted so hardly any water comes out, so you have
> to come into contact with the metal spout, which no sane person will do. Is
> there a secret society of janitors which requires this?

That's only 3/4 of the time. For the rest (which includes parks and
such), the water gushes over the bowl and soaks your foot.

I suspect it has nothing to do with the janitors, it's the plumbers.

Ward Abbott wrote

> Ha!! and most Americans don't know how to pronounce calzone
> either..... kal --zo -----NAY.......................LONG A in
> Italian!!!

And with the stress on the "o".
--
Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:08:52 -0400, "Joe Cilinceon"
> wrote:

>I don't have Tivo either because my computer has Media Center on it and if I
>want to record I do it there. It takes about 30 minutes again to record a 2
>hour movie to DVD on my computer using Nero 7.

Did Nero come with your set up? Please email me how to do that. I've
never figured out how to connect tv to computer. My dream is to have
picture in picture on my monitor. I want a thumbnail of whatever tv
show I want to watch while I diddle away on usenet (with earphones on
because another tv is in the room which someone else watches).

see return address to reply, thanks


--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for the chicken, a lifetime commitment for the pig.