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General Category => The Dead Pool => Topic started by: Wheezer on August 06, 2016, 11:01:23 PM

Title: John Paul Stevens outlasts another one
Post by: Wheezer on August 06, 2016, 11:01:23 PM
The VCR shall be no more (http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/last-video-cassette-recorder-maker/).

This reminds me again today, though, given that Pete Fountain is also now dead (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/arts/music/pete-fountain-clarinetist-known-for-his-high-spirited-new-orleans-jazz-dies-at-86.html) (I couldn't come up with anything), that there was a time in high school – '87 or '88 – when the jazz-band conductor was raving the next day about one of Fountain's performances on the Tonight Show, which my memory tells me that I also saw, in which the program ran over on-air because the audience refused to let him stop. That's a recording I'd like to see.
Title: Re: John Paul Stevens outlasts another one
Post by: flannj on August 07, 2016, 11:50:06 PM
Link wasn't working so try this: http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/last-video-cassette-recorder-maker/ (http://fortune.com/2016/07/21/last-video-cassette-recorder-maker/)

I still have two of them, an at the time very expensive Toshiba and a very reliable Sony.
They both get used on occasion.

Aside from that, the amount of "For Adults Only" videos that I have adjusted tracking to over past decades...
Title: Re: John Paul Stevens outlasts another one
Post by: Saul Goodman on August 08, 2016, 12:16:30 AM
Thought a sitting Supreme Court justice had died. Darn you, Wheezer.
Title: Re: John Paul Stevens outlasts another one
Post by: Quality Start Machine on August 08, 2016, 06:32:50 AM
Quote from: Saul Goodman on August 08, 2016, 12:16:30 AM
Thought a sitting Supreme Court justice had died. Darn you, Wheezer.

Yeah, because this election isn't enough of a shitstorm already.
Title: Re: John Paul Stevens outlasts another one
Post by: CBStew on August 08, 2016, 09:34:23 PM
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on August 08, 2016, 06:32:50 AM
Quote from: Saul Goodman on August 08, 2016, 12:16:30 AM
Thought a sitting Supreme Court justice had died. Darn you, Wheezer.

Yeah, because this election isn't enough of a shitstorm already.

On the other hand, if one kicked the bucket we would have an odd number again and the possibility of 4 to 3 decisions.