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Title: RIP MOV
Post by: Doug Fowler on June 30, 2020, 02:33:43 PM
This just in: a 40 year old $4 power strip gave up the ghost during a storm last night. It saved a lamp, an ancient LED alarm clock and a dual USB charger.

Thank you old friend for your many years of service.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Tim McCulloch on June 30, 2020, 02:37:00 PM
Turbo will have something to plug in to...
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Erik Jerde on June 30, 2020, 06:21:02 PM
This just in: a 40 year old $4 power strip gave up the ghost during a storm last night. It saved a lamp, an ancient LED alarm clock and a dual USB charger.

Thank you old friend for your many years of service.

Can’t you rebuild it?  Don’t you have the technology?  You could make it better than it was before.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Tim McCulloch on June 30, 2020, 06:54:00 PM
Can’t you rebuild it?  Don’t you have the technology?  You could make it better than it was before.

With inflation, that would be the Four Thousand Dollar Surge Protector!

For those too young to get the reference, we're making fun of the Six Million Dollar Man...

Hell, a trip to the hospital and a 3 week stay in ICU is over half a mil now, Steve Majors Austin would be the Six Zillion Dollar Man today.

edit ps: Henry, thanks for doing the math with inflation! Turns out a Zillion ain't worth what it used to be, now only $5,774,639.50!
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Henry Cohen on June 30, 2020, 07:53:11 PM
. . . Steve Majors would be the Six Zillion Dollar Man today.

Actually, $34,647,837.00 in 2020 dollars (https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1973?amount=6000000)

And the character's name was Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors. How soon we forget . . .
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Tim McCulloch on June 30, 2020, 08:12:22 PM
Actually, $34,647,837.00 in 2020 dollars (https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1973?amount=6000000)

And the character's name was Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors. How soon we forget . . .

How quickly conflated, even!  I shall edit appropriately.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Jeff Bankston on June 30, 2020, 08:33:28 PM
I send my condolenses
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Erik Jerde on June 30, 2020, 09:27:19 PM
With inflation, that would be the Four Thousand Dollar Surge Protector!

For those too young to get the reference, we're making fun of the Six Million Dollar Man...

Hell, a trip to the hospital and a 3 week stay in ICU is over half a mil now, Steve Majors Austin would be the Six Zillion Dollar Man today.

edit ps: Henry, thanks for doing the math with inflation! Turns out a Zillion ain't worth what it used to be, now only $5,774,639.50!

See, I like hanging around with old people.  They get my jokes.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Mike Monte on June 30, 2020, 09:57:04 PM
Actually, $34,647,837.00 in 2020 dollars (https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1973?amount=6000000)

And the character's name was Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors. How soon we forget . . .

...and Lee Majors was married for a few years to Farrah Faucett (the blonde babe in the original "Charlie's Angels") in the 70's.
When I was in HS, every dude had a pic of Farrah in their locker...
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Doug Fowler on June 30, 2020, 10:11:05 PM
Can’t you rebuild it?  Don’t you have the technology?  You could make it better than it was before.

No need to rebuild, I probably have another dozen :-)
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Doug Fowler on June 30, 2020, 10:13:51 PM
...and Lee Majors was married for a few years to Farrah Faucett (the blonde babe in the original "Charlie's Angels") in the 70's.
When I was in HS, every dude had a pic of Farrah in their locker...

Farrah was unfortunate enough to die the same day as Michael Jackson.  All those posters and no love from the media at the end.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Scott Holtzman on July 01, 2020, 06:07:02 AM
How quickly conflated, even!  I shall edit appropriately.


I think the most disturbing part was his wardrobe consisted mostly of leisure suits.  Don't forget the bionic babe Jamie Sommers played by Lindsey Wagner.  I am having a first thought wrong moment about making bionic women jokes....time to sign off
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Dave Garoutte on July 01, 2020, 12:36:19 PM

I think the most disturbing part was his wardrobe consisted mostly of leisure suits.  Don't forget the bionic babe Jamie Sommers played by Lindsey Wagner.  I am having a first thought wrong moment about making bionic women jokes....time to sign off

Ah, the days of low-budget special effects; when slow meant fast.

It's also amazing how quickly we swerve, although they were pretty powerful.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: frank kayser on July 01, 2020, 12:41:30 PM
Ah, the days of low-budget special effects; when slow meant fast.

It's also amazing how quickly we swerve, although they were pretty powerful.


It's because they use a faster frame rate.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Bradford "BJ" James on July 07, 2020, 05:21:16 PM
Farrah Faucett (the blonde babe in the original "Charlie's Angels") in the 70's.
When I was in HS, every dude had a pic of Farrah in their locker...

Ahhh...the mammories.
Title: Re: RIP MOV
Post by: Don T. Williams on July 13, 2020, 04:15:44 PM
I tried using "the sound effect" as a ring tone for my phone a few years ago, but every time it rang I went into slow motion!