MarkRD

Vintage technology is all the rage dahling! ..

Need any tape-cassettes to play?

Garbatellamike

hey don't forget the 5 1/4 computer discs and dear old Betamax video recorders

Pecora Nera

And the 8 track in my Mini...

jonwel

Another ice-cream joke:

A man went into an ice-cream parlour and asked for a cornet. "I'm sorry, we don't serve ice-cream to Jews", was the reply.
"But this is outrageous! I want to speak to the manager!"
"All right... Mr Cohen! Mr Cohen!"
The manager appeared.
"What?", said the man, "with a name like Cohen and you don't serve ices to Jews?"
"Well, if you really want one... let him have his ice-cream!", said the manager to the assistant.
The customer tasted the ice-cream.. "But this tastes awful!"
Mr Cohen smiled. "Now you know why we don't serve ice-creams to Jews".

MarkRD

Reminds me of when I went into a bar the other week and asked "avete un Magnum" to which the Chinese lady replied "no niente bagno.." ..

not sure if I had pronounced Magnum right or if she was a tad hard of hearing ..

(or if she couldn't distinguish her fonetic minimal pairs, but that's a geeky linguistic thing )

jonwel

Are you sure that wasn't her pronunciation of Magnum and she wasn't actually telling you that she didn't have any??? All bars should have a bagno by law (although the Chinese seem to get away with murder).

MarkRD

Good point but no ... she had a freezer full of 'em! .. and no loo.

Patty

I think I'm going to scream
I thought I would try again to book my appointment with the ASL - I left it a day thinking that the bloody computers must be working now. Ha ha ha - no such luck - I was on hold listening to that dreadful music for 15 minutes and then when a person finally came on line it was only to tell me that the computers are still down and they cant take any appointments. I just started laughing (hysteria setting in) she was very apologetic, but all I want is a 10 minute slot to have my ears unblocked.

Lorna at Vicenza

I've actually still got a box of floppy disks in my desk. I don't mind sticking a few in a Jiffy bag and posting them if Mrs Sensible really needs them. They don't weigh anything.

Each disk has a grand 1.44 Mb of memory. Says on the box though that they are 3.5 inch. Think they were standard at the time.

MarkRD

Yes, I think Mrs Sensible would be happy with 3.5"

Lorna at Vicenza

Too much trouble and beyond their intelligence to change the phone message so that it says "put phone down now if you need to book an appointment because our computers have crashed."

Lorna at Vicenza

Go to lunch or something.

MarkRD

I've already been! ...for lunch!

Lorna at Vicenza

The Italian company that I'm translating for sent one document to be translated by somebody working in the tribunal, and sent it back to me to check it.

First mistake is only on line 6

E’ costituita la società a responsabilità limitata denominata ......

It is made the limited liability company named ........

God help me !

ononno

if they had a brain they'd be dangerous.