Thursday, June 6, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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In my retail career I worked for two businesses with apostrophe problems: Walgreens (no apostrophe, though founded by a guy named Walgreen) and Borders Books & Music (again, no apostrophe, founded by two brothers named Borders). We got checks made out wrong all the time.
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I worked as an associate at a place called Borders Books and Music.
It was actually a grocery/ bodega, but there was a book store on one side and a music store on the other.
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billy pilgrim wrote:The Cap'n Crunch whistle was actually pretty famous in some circles. Nerds of the day learned that it emitted a tone of exactly 2600 Hz. Just the tone that AT&T used in itsa long distance routing. Et voila- free long distance.
As someone who has read, and reread, and re-reread Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, I cannot believe I negged on that clue. --Bob
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davey wrote:Frankly, I've never before noticed that the product name is not plural.
Haven't you ever learned the words to Take Me Out To The Ball Game?

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bpmod wrote:
davey wrote:Frankly, I've never before noticed that the product name is not plural.
Haven't you ever learned the words to Take Me Out To The Ball Game?

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When I learned those lyrics I wasn't such a snob for perfect rhymes as I am now. We sang it as "cracker jacks" just as loud as everybody else. And there are only about 45,000 fewer hits on google for the plural lyric as for the singular one, 135,000 to 179,000... :)
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You know how some people can't get "It's a Small World" out of their head no matter what? That song never had that effect on me whatsoever. But if you so much as say the phrase "ball game" near me, then I'm root, root, rooting for the home team for the next five days. I don't get it.
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billy pilgrim wrote:The Cap'n Crunch whistle was actually pretty famous in some circles. Nerds of the day learned that it emitted a tone of exactly 2600 Hz. Just the tone that AT&T used in itsa long distance routing. Et voila- free long distance.
I've always wondered if that was at least obliquely alluded to in the hilarious Cap'n Crunch set piece in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
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Bob78164 wrote:
billy pilgrim wrote:The Cap'n Crunch whistle was actually pretty famous in some circles. Nerds of the day learned that it emitted a tone of exactly 2600 Hz. Just the tone that AT&T used in itsa long distance routing. Et voila- free long distance.
As someone who has read, and reread, and re-reread Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, I cannot believe I negged on that clue. --Bob
I've read that book and totally missed the Cap'n Crunch mention. Drat!
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Paucle wrote:My parents. With them it almost always ends with an S. Eckerds, Targets, Rite-aids, Wal-Marts, K-Marts.
I used to work for Wally World. We'd get checks made out to "Walmarts" all the time.

Also, I have no clue where Cap'n Crunch got "bo'suns" from. It's either "bos'n" or "bo's'n" (or "boats" or "bosun", for something without an apostrophe).
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alietr wrote:Say it ain't so, Cap'n!

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alietr wrote:Say it ain't so, Cap'n!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos ... -goverment
He captains the SS Guppy (incidentally, NOT the USS Guppy), ergo he's a captain.
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Volante wrote:
alietr wrote:Say it ain't so, Cap'n!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos ... -goverment
He captains the SS Guppy (incidentally, NOT the USS Guppy), ergo he's a captain.
*nod* If you command a vessel, you are entitled to be called 'Captain', regardless of your actual rank.
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