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Keith Barrow wrote:
Nauseatingly *ahem* confident children.

Seems fake and for punishment I'd make them set clock on a VCR.

GALex - Advanced C++ Library for Genetic Algorithms

Mladen Janković wrote:
set clock on a VCR.

That's easy - get them to set up a series record on a VCR from the days before VideoPlus+... Laugh | :laugh:

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

This was the most useless feature of VCR Smile | :)

Either the show didn't start on time or tape was too short and you end up without start/end and a lot of commercials in between Wink | ;)

--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

At least it set the right channel - which I got wrong a couple of times... Blush | :O

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

And make sure what you've got in is a blank tape set at the correct time; not the movie you were watching the night before... Blush | :O

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

And that you had rewound it... D'Oh! | :doh:

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Actually I recorded over part of the 2nd movie we'd put on the tape. (And it wasn't my parents tape to begin with either.) D'Oh! | :doh:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Level2: Record something on magnetophon and play it.

Why don't they know how to use headphones? Are they all puny sodcasters?

And here´s a pencil. What do you think people in the eighties did with it ?

V.

(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

Depends. Were they constipated mathematicians? Wink | ;)

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

I would wait until there was a test and the entire classroom in total silence. Then get up and proceed to sharpen the pencil for about 2 minutes or until there was merely a stub with an eraser.. If it was a quality pencil it would also be needle sharp. In which I would begin to write and break the tip.. And repeat. Or I'd just throw them to the ceiling and see if they stick to the ceiling tiles..

Pencils also make good arrows when combined with paper clips and rubber bands.. Ahhh the 80s. In a time where texting was actually passing notes when the teacher wasn't looking and getting tagged at recess only meant you were a slow runner and not that every other kid on the playground was a bully.

But you are old.

You are as old as the woman you feel.

Unfortunately she won't let me trade her in on two 25 year olds... Sigh | :sigh:

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

The age I don't mind, it's the bloody snoring. Big Grin | :-D

Please! She's doing that as we speak... She has had a hard day.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

I had the same thing as I typed last night.

OriginalGriff wrote:
...but...what happens if you give modern kids old technology?

Looks about the same as giving older folks new technology.

She who decides, AKA Mrs Wife, has decided that we're going to Hungary for vacation this year.
My limited knowledge about Hungary comes from a neighbour at my student home with an unpronounceable name but called Greg. I have a feeling that this knowledge is not representable anymore.

So any recommendations for what to do when you have two small children of the ages two and three and a half?

Wrong is evil and must be defeated.
- Jeff Ello[^]

Apparently Gin is popular.
After that it all gets a bit vague...

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Personally I have some vague memories of some kind of enamel remover allegedly made from plums by someones grandma.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated.
- Jeff Ello[^]

Ah! So, you ran out of Gin then?

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Ran out of wits anyway.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated.
- Jeff Ello[^]

Gin is what you do in Hungary when you don't have the kids tying you down. D'Oh! | :doh:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Dan Neely wrote:
Gin is what you do in Hungary to forget ~~when~~ you ~~don't~~ have the kids tying you down.

FTFY!

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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