> > Maybe we could all chip in and send them a ten-year old
> > boom-box? ;-)
Someone was asking what a boom-box is. It's a portable stereo, usually
with casette and radio, although some later ones had cd and some really large
ones came with a small fold-out turntable. In the early 1980s it was common
to see a person with one of these things on his shoulder, music cranked up
loud. This fad died back swiftly with the advent of the sony walkman.
If you've ever watched Star Trek IV, the Voyage Home, the scene on the bus
where the punk rocker is given the Vulcan neck pinch for blasting his music
too loud clearly shows the punk rocker (also the author of the music, as it
turns out) using a Boom Box. They were such an annoyance that the scene
in the movie was universally greeted with cheers in the theater.
--
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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