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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Oh, and we'd have been given a big, fat F if we'd be caught with a calculator. They weren't allowed even in class, nevermind at a test.

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23 posted on 09/18/2005 9:06:32 AM PDT by VermiciousKnid
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To: VermiciousKnid

Back when I was a boy,
We didn't have calculators,
or computers ...

We had slide rules,
And trig function tables,
With print so small that you needed a magnifying glass,
AND WE LIKED IT!


55 posted on 09/18/2005 9:34:05 AM PDT by RBroadfoot
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To: VermiciousKnid

We were allowed calculators in college. . .but in high school. . . the most we were allowed was a slide rule.

Ah, for the good old days of a big bamboo Decitrig hanging in a scabbard off your belt: the sign of the nerd LONG before the Pocket Protector was invented. . .


143 posted on 09/18/2005 11:43:08 AM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: VermiciousKnid; TruthShallSetYouFree
Oh, and we'd have been given a big, fat F if we'd be caught with a calculator. They weren't allowed even in class, nevermind at a test.

Ha! When I took trig, there were no calculators.

160 posted on 09/18/2005 1:33:19 PM PDT by Amelia (Common sense isn't particularly common.)
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