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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    08/11/09

    In reply to Retro Cassette Tape 4-Port USB Hub Reminds You How Old You Are
    So if you're having problems with it, do you stick a pencil through the holes and spin?
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    08/11/09

    @GitEmSteveDave+$240InPudding: haha. nice one.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to Retro Cassette Tape 4-Port USB Hub Reminds You How Old You Are
    This on my desktop would be an unpleasant reminder of the hundreds of music cassettes in my closet. I can't bring myself to toss them. Anybody got any helpful hints?
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    08/11/09

    @PaddyDugan: Furniture. Tables, Chairs, Bookends, whatever your dwelling is missing.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    08/11/09

    @PaddyDugan: Play them in a portable Walkman, directly to your sound card, and digitize the contents? Assuming it's anything you really want to keep, that is.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to Retro Cassette Tape 4-Port USB Hub Reminds You How Old You Are
    It should come with a Gig of internal memory so you can still make a soppy mixtape and send it to that girl with the cute smile with the locker across from yours.
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    08/11/09

    @elitesoulman: that cute girl will probably have no idea how to use it, try to play it in a cassette player, then get upset at why you dump your broken tape to her.
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    Image of mrbnatural mrbnatural
    07/28/09

    In reply to Cassette Tape Lamps Illuminate as MP3s Never Will
    Looks like a pretty easy/cheap DIY project. Glue some old tapes into a 3D shape, stick some cold cathode tubes inside, power with a 12v AC adapter. I could build one right now from junk laying around the flat without spending a dime.
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    Image of Toastie Toastie
    07/28/09

    In reply to Cassette Tape Lamps Illuminate as MP3s Never Will
    It would fit in with my coasters made out of CD's, table made out of 8 track's, clock made from a record, and my rug made from the hair of John Lennon. I found that anything that makes music makes great furniture.
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    07/28/09

    @Toastie: I don't suppose you'd be interested in a hand-crafted didgeriurinal, or pneumatic bagpipe alarm clock, would you?
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    Image of Toastie Toastie
    07/28/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Please my good sir, shaving a famous man is one thing and asking a man to piss in an instrument is something else entirely! Although I find your alarm clock could add great atmosphere to my living area. As long as it's that delightfully tacky red plaid color.
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    07/28/09

    @Toastie: Just don't buy the KISS bath mat. Just don't.
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    07/28/09

    In reply to Cassette Tape Lamps Illuminate as MP3s Never Will
    If a rare recording of Bimbo Jet's El Bimbo is in there, consider me sold.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    My Aunt bought a 1982 Lincoln Continental and had to wait an extra five weeks for it from the factory for it to have the 8-track stereo option. In the trunk she had a suitcase-sized box full of nothing but POLKA 8-track cartridges.
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    07/16/09

    @EBone: She sounds like the personification of evil. Are we related?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/16/09

    @Julius Seizure. (the CANUCK one): Could be. She was a witch to me after my parents died, and I hope she died a horrible death.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    sweet, I remember growing up in the early eighties and playing with my aunt's 8-tracks...Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles...that is where I learned to appreciate music.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    I just want to know where they found the 8-Track production line. And, then once they actually found it and dusted it off you then have to find someone that remembers how to run it. And, then you've got to find the raw materials. Seriously, I'm surprised this is even possible for any price!
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    This is....great?
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    Oh man that's sweet.

    Cheap Trick was pretty common to find in most 8-track libraries, so this is one awesome nod to that era.



    era...ask not...
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    Wtf is an 8-track? I have honestly never seen one of these in my life.
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    Image of R_Claw R_Claw
    07/16/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Please tell me you're joking.



    The picture of that 8-track brings back fond memories of my dad picking me up from soccer practices in his bright Yellow VW Rabbit.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    07/16/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: It's the predecessor to Minidisc.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    07/16/09

    @R_Claw: Takes me back to my mom's 1976 Ford Elite. Blue with white vinyl top...ohhhh yeahhhh.
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    07/16/09

    @dingus: The benefit of 8 track is that it wasn't proprietary like the SONY CORPORATIONS mindisc.
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    07/16/09

    @R_Claw: There are some songs where, even when I hear them today, my brain still expects to hear that *click* at a certain spot. You know, those ones where it changed tracks in the middle of the song?
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    07/16/09

    @Jesus_Jones: I'm glad to hear that it had at least one benefit.
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    07/16/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: wow... I'm not old enough to have been around during the 8-track era but I still know what it is. Unless your parents lived under a rock during the late 60s-70s there's no excuse for you to not at the very least know what an 8 track looks like.



    Wow, in 10 years there will be kids saying "a Compact what? I've never heard of them."
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/16/09

    @egoods: I don't know... I was born in the 1985, and maybe have memories from 1988 onwards. I don't know about you, but I don't know many people who keep 10-20 year old electronics around.
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    07/16/09

    In reply to Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album on 8-Track Cassette
    Dumb. Why would you release an album so that no one can listen to it, except for people that kept an 8-track in working condition who won't want to listen to Cheap Trick anyway?
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    07/16/09

    @Jakooboo the Great!: If you have a working 8-track, you probably love Cheap Trick.
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    07/16/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: I was thinking the same thing.
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    07/16/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: And hope they wear leather pants when they tour this year.
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    07/02/09

    In reply to Take the Walkman 30th Birthday Quiz
    Didn't do so hot. I must've gotten audio-induced long-term memory loss from spending my teenage years blasting my ears with Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Megadeth, and Van Halen.
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    07/01/09

    In reply to Take the Walkman 30th Birthday Quiz
    Soon the Super Karate Monkey Death car would park in my space. But was Jimmy scared? A thousand times no. Jimmy had fancy plans, and pants to match. Donkey Donkey Donkey Donkey.
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    Image of GenericWhiteGuy GenericWhiteGuy
    07/01/09

    @600Followers_GitEmSteveDave: What did you mean when you wrote, "Donkey donkey donkey donkey donkey"?


    signed,


    Macho Business Donkey Wrestler

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    07/01/09

    @GenericWhiteGuy: Well, you see.....I meant the FCC.
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    07/02/09

    @600Followers_GitEmSteveDave:
    "I had a small house of brokerage on Wall Street. Many days no business comes to my hut...my hut, but...Jimmy has fear? A thousand times no! I never doubted myself for a minute, for I knew that my monkey strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon, ribboned with fat and the opulance of buffalo (turns page) dung."


    "...glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon, the...super karate monkey death car would...park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans! And pants to match. Monkey clown horrible karate, round and yummy, like a cute small baby chick, would beat the donkey."


    If you're going to quote what is possibly the awesomest bit of monologue in the history of TV, please get it right.

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    07/02/09

    @Purple Dave: Sorry, was doing it purely from memory, and we all know how flawed memory is.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    07/03/09

    @600Followers_GitEmSteveDave:
    Such complex lines were not meant to be reproduced entirely from memory. I'd even guess that Stephen Root didn't memorize them, but simply read them from a page on the podium. Of course, Dave Foley probably _did_ memorize them, after a single read-through...but that's another story.
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