>In 1957 kids in my class were using the term, “I am listening to my transistor”. They would not say, “transistor radio”. I liked to argue with them that a transistor is a current amplifying device and you cannot “listen to it”. That is what I get for being in electronics! :)
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>That which is acceptable today is obsolete tomorrow. :)
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>Tom
They've always been called "trannies" in the UK (which is now also slang for "transvestites") :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
