Friday Craziness
By pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
Derry, Northern Ireland
August 12, 2016 2:49pm CST
You don't have to be mad to work here, they said - but it helps.
So I worked. I laughed. Beaten? Me? No.
How would you feel if the dilithium crystals were red-lining, yet the only thing warping was your sense of humour?
That's life, Jim - but not as we know it.
There are klingons off the starboard bow! It's worse than that, he's dead Jim! It's life Jim but not as we know it, not as we know it!
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
13 Aug 16
As a big Star Trek fan, I understood you right from the beginning! I got a good laugh from the song, as I haven't heard it in years. Many moons ago, back when cassette tapes were the latest technology and all the rage, I had recorded that song off the radio late one night, and played it over and over again until eventually the cassette tape wore out!
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
13 Aug 16
I had a tape that had a collection of heavy-metal tracks recorded at a party I was at one night, my first foray into exorbitantly-priced chrome dioxide cassette tapes (remember them?) - it lasted for years. Don't ask me where it is now, I have no cassette player on which to play it anyway...
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
13 Aug 16
@moffittjc Vinyl's making a comeback, but I doubt the tape will ever return in that format. Strangely, all your streaming media is still stored on magnetic media, but inside a hard drive rather than on a spool of flexible tape...
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
13 Aug 16
@pgntwo Believe it or not, I still have a box full of chrome dioxide tapes that I recorded music on! I don't have a cassette player to play them on, but I still have them! And maybe someday, when cassettes become popular again due to nostalgia, I can buy a cassette player and re-listen to all those tapes! I'm willing to bet that they will probably be of degraded quality by then, and have a "hissing" other type of weird noise!
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Aug 16
I love that song - so funny I never stopped singing/quoting it for weeks when it first came out - places I worked being mad made little difference - they were still awful
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
19 Aug 16
@pgntwo they also did a song based on Minder
The Firm - Arthur Daley 'E's Alright. Top of the Pops, 29th July 1982
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
19 Aug 16
@arthurchappell I'd forgotten that one! I think Come on, Eileen was the same year too. Nice :)
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
16 Aug 16
I love the original Star Trek series.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
15 Aug 16
haha! Know you're expertly making fun of a show but don't know which one and didn't see it.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
16 Aug 16
@pgntwo We all need that every once and awhile!! ha!
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
14 Aug 16
Sounds like you were well ready for the weekend to restore your sanity!
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
12 Aug 16
Oh, this takes me back to dancing in the living room with my younger brother. The 7" still exists somewhere at Mumsy's house. Fun times.
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