57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was slowly starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.

Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.

Alternatively, you can also opine about people not taking “A Modest Proposal” as seriously as they should, and the only failing you can see it limiting it to the children of the poor.

I can offer Maximum Derek value, and that’s plenty.

!wizards@lemmy.world

Your mama so thick even Dairy Queen goes, “daaammmmmmn”

puppuccino means something else in that household.

My ISP (run by a jerky company) kept its BBS running until the mid-90s just for us still playing the MUDDs.

And for people who might be impressed, a 7 digit ICQ number proves they aren’t really old school.

The main thing my phone knows about me is that I’m good at setting it down at 6:30am and forgetting it exists until 10:30pm. And from the dresser I usually leave it on, it can probably hear how often the toilet flushes in our house.

That’s a gateway drug. They start with one of those after school and the next thing you know they’re sniffing pixie sticks off the stomach of a janitor and selling grandma’s urn for a single Laffy Taffy.

It cuts down to something like 300 exceptions if in include the “unless it rhymes with neighbor or way” subclause. That subclause is also violated about 2 dozen times.

It’s the best rule, there are only 923 exceptions to it in the scrabble word list.

So without their feathers they look like they act?

Hobbit rockets never leave the ground. They use pipe-weed as fuel and, by T plus 60 of any launch, the engineers are all giggling on the launch pad eating funions as a quick post-elevenses snack.

I like to mix things up. I hate myself for some things I didn’t try, some things I tried but failed at, and sometimes things I tried and succeeded at.

Looks like Huntarr’s presence on Github is suddenly gone and their sub went private.

I don’t see an ad in there

Every result is for the same scammy looking site.

I learned it on QI

Problems in this image

1. SEO ads
2. It’s a cipher, not a code.
3. It was developed by Vail, not Morse.

If there was anything remotely interesting about aliens he would have already used it as a distraction during covid.