"Aftermath" - September 17, 2021

A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
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On shore, after a quick refresh lesson
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muggles.jpg
I see your fancy calculators and raise with a SLIDE RULE!
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Quickly on shore again! I enjoy the calculator and slide ruler pics. I am old enough to have used a slide ruler in school. 😂
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On the beach. Sunscreen applied. Gonna take a nap.
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On shore - caipirinha in hand....now onto week 3 gaffney.
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SingleMalt wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:16 pm muggles.jpg

I see your fancy calculators and raise with a SLIDE RULE!
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John77 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:03 pm
auee89 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:03 pm
boharr wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:18 pm

Wait. You mean they didn't have batteries?
Mine did! This was a big expense in the mid-80's and lasted me all through undergrad and grad school. RPN was the best.

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I gave up my Pickett (and about $100) for one of these:

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You guys make me feel good about being somewhat of a packrat as I don't have my calculators from 40+ years ago.
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Marion and I are joining all in the sand..........GET THE LOBBYING GOING - IT'S TIME FOR MORE THAN ONE MUG!!

I am sure the WSJ could afford more than one........should ba allocated based on the number of correct submissions - i.e. 1/500 correct or some ratio like that.

FIRE EMAILS AT Miller!!
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cpelster wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:37 pm Quickly on shore again! I enjoy the calculator and slide ruler pics. I am old enough to have used a slide ruler in school. 😂
Reminds me of this eccentric drafting teacher I had in HS. Yes the one for students allegedly gifted (if that word is still allowed) in math and science (I got in by the seat of my hypotenuse).

He showed us a 12 inch ruler on the first day and instructed with grave solemnity that if you went to the 6” line there would be two equal segments on each side.

I must have given him a look that betrayed that I thought, “this guy must be on something” (thank you, Captain Obvious wasn’t an expression known to me at the time). So he said, “does that surprise you?” And thus continued my descent into alienation. Continued by everything I read in HS, including Bernard Malamud of all authors. Crazy how they make high schoolers read about alienation, when we could probably teach the subject.
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I may as well join the crowd - ashore.
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Back from hiatus. Ashore.
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Trey wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 7:35 pm Marion and I are joining all in the sand..........GET THE LOBBYING GOING - IT'S TIME FOR MORE THAN ONE MUG!!

I am sure the WSJ could afford more than one........should ba allocated based on the number of correct submissions - i.e. 1/500 correct or some ratio like that.

FIRE EMAILS AT Miller!!
I have this fantasy that I will commission a meta themed coffee cup from Tiffany’s, winning admiration and $49.95 from all. However, rules are rules and I won’t sully the sanctity of this noble pursuit with low mindedness even more than I already have. It’s a high bar for a reason. We can’t all win. There weren’t like six Rheingolds.
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One Mug! I may never get one but when I do I want it to count!
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SingleMalt wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:45 pm One Mug! I may never get one but when I do I want it to count!
Was it En Vogue or Lao Tse who said:

It’s not the having, it’s the wanting.
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SReh26 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:54 pm
SingleMalt wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:45 pm One Mug! I may never get one but when I do I want it to count!
Was it En Vogue or Lao Tse who said:

It’s not the having, it’s the wanting.
Actually it was Mr. Spock in the Star Trek episode Amok Time. 🖖
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Don't know why you all act like slide rules are obsolete. Here's photographic evidence that they will be used on starships.
Spock with E6B.jpg
(Actual screen capture, not photo-shop.)
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Ashore. Liked this one…might be the fact that I’m a math professor. :geek:
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MikeM000 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:31 am
grwinski wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:19 pm Ashore!

My old HP45 sure helped me with this (what? I'm showing my age?)

Rita and George
When I was a small child in the mid 70s my dad got an employee deal on a Rockwell scientific calculator. My older brother's HS math teacher was *woah* and I think my dad hooked him up with one as well. I would look at the things on and above the buttons and try to figure out what they did when I pressed them. (By the time I actually knew, Rockwell was way out of the calculator business; I had one from Texas Instruments that was solar powered.)

Oh hey...20 bucks for one on eBay right now!
Anyone else remember this?

"Rockwell calculators, they are really neat,
They got big green numbers and little rubber feet."
For nudges, feel free to PM me. I won't have a clue how to help you, but you might shove me ashore.
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Ashore! Quick swim, now time for a full weekend in the beach.
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Ashore and perky,
Chips, dips, beer, nuts and jerky.
Beach togs quite quirky!
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