Max Eskin wrote:
>
> Haven't you ever spelled upside-down words on a calculator before?
> Q: What is the Divine Comedy about?
> ( [4] [3] [3] [7] [M+] ) Hell
Sure I did, later, when I could afford a calculator. My Pickett was a
slide rule. Still is, actually. Solid aluminium.
> >Russ Blakeman wrote:
> >
> >> Remember when the LED HP calculators were banned from high schools
> and
> >> considered cheating? My best friend was suspended over just the
> possession of
> >> one in school, not even in class. Of course he's a few years younger
> than I as
> >> I don't remember calculators being much less than the price of a good
> used car
> >> when I was in school. They came down dramatically in 76 when I was
> going
> >> through electronics training. I think the one I had cost $105 then
> and we
> >> thought that was cheap.
> >
> >I was forbidden to take my old Pickett out of its holster many times
> >back in my early 70s high school days. Never understood what
> >advantage it was supposed to give me in an EngLit test ...
> >--
> >Ward Griffiths
> >They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
> >Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
> > Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
> >
>
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Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 20:41:43 BST