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Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

Started by Nam, July 26, 2014, 08:19:18 PM

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Blackleaf

So, when will cassette tapes be back in style?
"Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound."
--Fulke Greville--

Hydra009

Quote from: Blackleaf on May 08, 2025, 10:24:26 AMSo, when will cassette tapes be back in style?
Never.  That format really did not stand the test of time.  CDs tore through that format like hot butter.  And good luck convincing any electronics company to make cassette players.


Unbeliever

In the early 80s I had a computer, called Timex/Sinclair ZX81, that used cassettes to program it with BASIC, which I was learning at the time.
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

PopeyesPappy

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Quote from: Blackleaf on May 08, 2025, 10:24:26 AMSo, when will cassette tapes be back in style?

A few years ago we bought a mid 90s manufactured Nakamichi DR-1 cassette deck for digitizing some oral history recordings. We sold it on Facebook market place a few months ago for $1000. About what we paid for it. There may not be a market for new ones, but there is a healthy market for higher end used ones. Same goes for nice 1/4" reel to reel machines. I have one of those sitting on the desk behind me now that I listen to on a regular basis.   
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Hydra009



New pope.  I bit more into french fries and herring than typical for Popes, but likes to sit, doesn't say anything weird politically, and doesn't have a criminal record, so silver linings.

PopeyesPappy

Quote from: Hydra009 on May 08, 2025, 01:38:17 PM

New pope. 

First American. Bit of centrist. Leans liberal on some things conservative on others.
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Unbeliever

I was hoping for Pope Pizzaballa, but it was not to be. 😿
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Gawdzilla Sama

Pope-on-a-rope days are over?
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Unbeliever

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Weird how the word "pope" means "papa," as in father, when Jesus said (Matthew 23:9) not to call any man on this world father! And what are all of those priests called?
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Unbeliever on May 08, 2025, 04:18:30 PMWeird how the word "pope" means "papa," as in father, when Jesus said (Matthew 23:9) not to call any man on this world father! And what are all of those priests called?
Simple, the F isn't capitalized in "papa".

And if that doesn't make sense, then welcome to religion.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Hydra009


PopeyesPappy

Funny because FedEx just dropped off a box of 6 Lou Malnati's deep dish pizzas here earlier today.
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Blackleaf

Aww... Trump didn't make it as Pope? Shucks.
"Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound."
--Fulke Greville--

Unbeliever

Yeah, Trump wanted to be the new Pope, but instead, he's just the Poop. 💩
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

the_antithesis

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