Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2008/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Old Encyclopedias (Completely OT)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:45:04 -0400

Wow, I'd forgotten the lead-in to those Carnac spots. Although Johnnie's
been back in the news since Ed started trying to avoid foreclosure on his
mansion. These books are definitely post-milkman, though. I'm not so sure
about 8-tracks and there were definitely still phone booths on the street
corners. I do have a TRS-80 computer from about the same time as the
encyclopedia was published, though (and it still worked last time I tried
it).

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Kantor [mailto:klarinet@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:47 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Old Encyclopedias (Completely OT)

Or as Ed McMahon often stated:

"I have in my hand an envelope, a child of four can plainly see these
envelopes are hermetically sealed. They've been kept since noon today in a
mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnalls' porch. No one-but one!-knows its
contents. In his mystical and borderline way, Carnac will now ascertain the
answers having never heard the questions."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:41 PM
Subject: [kl] Re: Old Encyclopedias (Completely OT)

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:25:53 -0400, "Karl Krelove"
> <karlkrelove@-----.net> wrote:
>> I have a 20-year-old set of Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia taking up shelf
>> space in my office. It isn't of interest to any librarian I've asked -
>> too
>> old and F&W wasn't a high-quality reference even when it was new
>
> But without them, how will you ever explain to your grandchildren the
> obscure cultural reference in the old Laugh-In reruns: "Look THAT up in
> your Funk & Wagnall's"?
>
> Sock-it-to-me.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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