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- From: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny)
- Subject: Re: Mostly Boring
- Originator: gerald@gerald
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <gerald.727638869@gerald>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:54:29 GMT
- Reply-To: gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com
- References: <gerald.727414491@gerald> <1993Jan20.213626.4801@sni.ca>
- Organization: Ministry of Noises
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- dave@snitor.sni.ca (Dave Till) writes:
-
- >Is attendance down at the Ontario Science Centre, or are the post-post-
- >baby boomers wimpy, or what? Back in My Lost Youth [TM], you would have
- >been set upon by a horde of pre-teeners if you had hogged an exhibit for
- >two whole minutes.
- >
- >The rage in the 1970's was the computer sound generator:
-
- This year, the rage seems to be the Van De Graf accelerator (I probably
- didn't spell that properly...long time no Physics). There was about a
- hundred kids lined up to touch the big silver ball and make their hair
- stand up. You could tell which kids were the dirty kids, because their
- hair wouldn't go anywhere.
-
- The Eliza terminals were quite dead, since most of the people there
- were too young to type (or read, probably). Some of the mommies watched
- me for a while. I entertained them with phrases like ``How much is this
- costing me?'' Ha, ha. Ha. Kids are only attracted to something if it
- makes a LOT of noise, or makes them look or act silly.
-
- >Then everybody would ... run, shrieking, through the soundproof corridor.
-
- Now, why didn't I see this?
-
- Gerald, they probably replaced it with that stupid laser
-