Since it keeps coming up in the comments, let’s just throw in a link to the Deteriorata, shall we?
I mean, for the sake of reference.
P.S. “Remember the Pueblo.” Good lord, but there’s a measure of one’s time on earth, isn’t it? If you remember it, you’re over 40. If you’re under 40, no months-long, constantly updated news event was ever less consequential in the long run.
Jeff said on June 19, 2004 at 6:30 pm
Gotta go with the original source material:
http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/deteriorata/default.asp
I noticed the nytimes obit when Cmdr. Lloyd Butcher died a few weeks ago and thought not of Deteriorata, but “i am so over 40.”
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Ann said on June 20, 2004 at 12:28 pm
Not to mention that you don’t see a lot of punch cards warning you not to “bend, fold, spindle, or mutilate” any more.
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Jeff said on June 20, 2004 at 2:46 pm
does that mean the stack of ibm punch card boxes with my compiler on them from CS 231 can go in the trash?
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John Ritter said on June 21, 2004 at 7:49 am
“Rotate your tires”….that is profound wisom of the ages.
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