May 15, 20206 yr 44 minutes ago, mwl168 said: What? No love for the Pioneer 8 Track player? I grew up with those things! That’s like being into granny porn—not everyone thinks of them that fondly.
May 15, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, mwl168 said: What? No love for the Pioneer 8 Track player? I grew up with those things! Gawd, you made my ears cringe with that... I think my '70 Chevelle SS had one in it. Never bought any 8 tracks, but played one in it once. Almost threw it out the window! Man were those things bad.
May 15, 20206 yr I don't know - but I want to listen to the Awesome Mix -- Vol. 2! -- on the Nakamichi.
May 15, 20206 yr In Spain we call them "válvulas". In other Spanish speaking countries they call them "tubos", but not in Spain. I rarely see them named valves in English.
May 15, 20206 yr In English, "valves" is used almost exclusively. In American, everyone says "tubes" except for Dusty! 😁
May 16, 20206 yr 39 minutes ago, Craig Sawyers said: Short for God's Truth. Sounds like a promotion to me, Dusty Wait, it is? I thought it was just a normal contraction, for "is truth". (wanders off to Google) Goddammit, now I have to stop using it.
May 16, 20206 yr It is like zounds, that used to be used as an exclamation in Marvel and other comics. Actually is a contraction of God's Wounds, a reference to the Crucifixion.
May 16, 20206 yr Egad. I've been doing it wrong. I used it as confirmation, like 'indeed'. What about 'zoiks'?
May 16, 20206 yr 30 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said: Egad. I've been doing it wrong. I used it as confirmation, like 'indeed'. What about 'zoiks'? That comes from Zoidberg in Futurama
May 16, 20206 yr 1 minute ago, Craig Sawyers said: That comes from Zoidberg in Futurama Naw, it predates Futurama by a few decades: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zoiks
May 16, 20206 yr 51 minutes ago, Grahame said: Zoinks, surely. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/zoinks#Etymology You say, “toe-mah-toe”... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zoiks Honestly, I was too afraid it was short for god’s oinks.
May 16, 20206 yr 16 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said: Honestly, I was too afraid it was short for god’s oinks. I'm still laughing. That made my day!
May 16, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, Dusty Chalk said: Honestly, I was too afraid it was short for god’s oinks. Well, now it is.
May 17, 20206 yr The lovely cassette deck I mentioned above. TBH it wasn't as good sounding as the looks would suggest. Still I recorded a ton of vinyls into cassettes with that machine.
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