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    It's Almost Friday Humor Thread

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    6 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

     

    This guy was driving down the freeway, a cute little bunny rabbit ran out in the road, he tried to miss it but he ended up running right over the thing. He pulled over and walked back to check on it. The bunny was dead, smashed, ran over. He was all bent out of shape about it. Suddenly a woman in a nice sports car rolls by. She sees him looking at the poor rabbit so she pulls over. She gets out of her car, walks up to the guy and says “what’s going on? Is everything okay?” The guy says “I just ran over this poor rabbit, he’s gone, there’s nothing I can do!”

    She says “hold on a moment I have exactly what you need!” The guy looks at her like she’s crazy, thinking XXX? The rabbits dead, what can possibly be done? She goes to her car, grabs a can out of the console, walks back over to him and the rabbit and she sprays the rabbit with whatever is in the can. She looks at him and says “there you go! Problem solved!” He’s still like XXX? This chicks gone mad. Suddenly the rabbit stands up, it walks like ten feet, turns around and waves. It walks another ten feet, turns around and waves. It does that all the way until he can’t see the rabbit anymore.

    He’s amazed, he asks her “ ma’am what do you have in that magical can?” She says “oh it’s just hairspray, it revives dead hair and adds permanent wave!”

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    It's Almost Friday Humor Thread

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    9 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    Around the 1960s, Pepsi decided to expand its business to China only to find a literal linguistic barrier that almost ruined the whole venture. At the time, Pepsi’s slogan in English-speaking countries was "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation." However, when directly translated into Chinese, the slogan read something like "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead," turning the favorite cola of millions into a powerful dark magic concoction that—as one could expect—wasn’t very well received by the Chinese population, who just happen to hold their deceased ancestors in great esteem.

    I read the exact same story years ago, but it was with the Coke campaign slogan, “Coke adds life.”

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    35 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

    My first oscilloscope had 50 KHz bandwidth. A 5V 5 MHz square-wave signal was about a half volt leak to peak at 2.5 volts, and horribly phase shifted. But that signal still told me it was there.

     

    Last time I repaired a TV was back in the '90s, ordered the transistor from the service department at Montgomery Wards. Not as trivial as the tube tester days but still doable and Sam's Photo Facts were at the local library so I could get schematics.

     

    Recently had an iMac fail on me, googled the disk drive location (turns out it could be in one of three places). Got out my drill and drilled all three areas as the computer is not worth repairing ($250 used, $125 for a power supply, plus tools and other parts to put the thing back together). Had data backups, restored my stuff to one of my other computers.

     

    I still have a nice Tektronix 465B oscilloscope, falls off just below 500 MHz. So now too slow for modern computers but could probably still diagnose stuff if it was worth repairing.

    That’s impressive. My total knowledge of oscilloscopes then and now is there was a wavy green line moving against a screen with a grid. 
     

    Didn’t they use one in the opening credits of the TV show “Outer Limits”? They were used a lot by Hollywood in the 50s and 60s to illustrate high tech. 

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