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GJGCA

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4. Pocket calculator!?!

Reply to EYESORE 9001 (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:55 PM

Jul 2025

Why, I didn't even have a slide rule..

Slide rule! I was lucky to have an abacus to help with pencil and paper..

Pencil and paper!? I wrote with a piece of fireplace charcoal on the back of a shovel...

Fireplace!? We lived in a cardboard shack...

Forgive the foolishness, it's a serious subject, but could not hold back the Monty Python...

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Functioning in an idiocracy requires some neural rearrangement EYESORE 9001 Jul 2025 #3

Pocket calculator!?! GJGCA Jul 2025 #4

I wasn't joking EYESORE 9001 Jul 2025 #5

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