Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 18, 2024

Guess I’m old, too.

I’m old

Yep, knew them all

At least phonograph records are coming back…

The one that measures your foot is called a Branock Device. Now old does that make me?

Also, the fact that you are reading this on a sheet of paper instead of a screen is a dead giveaway to your age…

They still use foot measurers at shoe stores

They ID’d six out of eight items—not exactly “aced”.

The only one I could not get was the record player speed selector. I thought I was looking at a solid object and could not tell that the black portion was a slot and not a part of the object. If it were better drawn then I would have figured it out.

Also the ones I ever saw said 33, 45, 78, or just 33 and 45. I had several turntables in my lifetime and none ever said “16” speed.

I remember when floppy discs were LITERALLY floppy!

It happens when you least expect it.

I remember, a few years back, I was listening to the pop radio station, and The Chainsmokers’ “Lemme Take a Selfie” played. And all I could think was, this is the DUMBEST song I’ve ever heard.

And that’s when I got old.

Gee.

They left out:

Typewriters.

Phone booths.

Those X-Ray Machines that they used to have in shoe stores where you could look at the bones in your feet for GAW only knows what reason.

And a roll of caps and cap guns from back in the day when parents weren’t so Nam-by Pam-by about letting their kids play with them.

And oh how I miss the smell of fresh fired caps. ;-)

Heck I still have most of those things layin around here somewhere..

Where can I buy a Boom-Box that does it all?

There are pull tabs that remove the whole top of my dogs canned dog food. Also the same for some soup cans.

Whoever writes these quizzes has a weird sense of humor and I love it! I have no idea what a Flash cube or a Phonograph speed changer is.

Aren’t these jokes about being old getting, well, old?

My car is a 2014. No cigarette lighter. No ash trays. What is this world coming to?!?!

I would not have figured out the car cigarette lighter. The shops are scattered about, but there are old audio repair and restorations around (for old boom boxes et al). Y’might can still get a floppy disc reader that will fit a pc’s usb port. Many files may no longer be readable, but you could still regain some of the text documents.

Officially old.

What you used in the past will get you caught

A floppy disk is still the icon used for the “save” button on most programs. They’ll have to change that, since fewer and fewer people know what a floppy disk is. I’ve only come across one program that has changed it – the Linux text editor Xed.

Why is it on a piece of paper?

There were 16 rpm records?

And what if you had a 78 rpm shellac disk you wanted to play? (From the days before vinyl.)

Rotary dial phone. B/W TV. Newspaper. Too many others.

Aw, you’re just upset there are no more woolly mammoths to hunt, Frank!

It’s not on there, but I always thought that the headlight dimmer was better on the floorboard. Also, I explained a car cigarette lighter to my grandson just yesterday.

Old enough to remember shoe stores having x-ray machines to check fit. If they are about 50 they would have been in high school in 1990s

And how many folks out there actually had 16 RPM records?

I got them all, but the record speed changer should have had a 78 rpm setting.

I can name all those things.

I remember the credit card machine from old movies lol

What? No plastic yellow 45-record adapter?

The truly fun thing is the mystified look on all of those young people’s faces as they look at those objects before confessing that they have no idea what they are.

We might be old, but at least we know stuff!

I don’t mind being officially old. It means I’m still alive.

oh BOY….I needed a REMINDER!

oww

At least his brain still works.

You’re old if you remember when you had to get up and walk across the room to change the TV channel. And sooner or later , the knob would fall off and get lost, so then you turned the spindle with a pair of needle nose pliers.

Uh-oh…….Not only did I identify them all, but it was so EASY to do so.

Been there, done that …..

How about the ability to produce cursive text and perform long division?

My 24-year-old car has a cigarette lighter. It still has a use: There’s this thing called an “FM modulator” that you can plug into it with a flash drive, and it plays the music on the flash drive through the radio.

If cameras didn’t go digital, flash cubes might have evolved into flash octahedrons

Brannock Device = “foot measurer”. :)

Personally, I think the image of the page should have been the first frame, including only the “how many” question. This would allow those of us who start with the first frame to try without seeing their answers. Then the second frame they answer, and the third we get told we are old.

And I can identify them all, and that more than half of them are younger versions.

Kinda funny that we still use the floppy disk (well, the “stiffy” disk) as a universal “save information” indicator when we’re three generations removed from its common use.

The only one I missed was the phonograph speed changer, mostly because I didn’t see the numbers. Mind you, I didn’t need this test to know I’m old.

You call that a floppy disk? Why, I still have an 8 inch disk that holds (if I remember correctly) 80 kilobytes.

Yes, if it had been for the current generation, it would have been a picture of a smart phone and nothing else!

If you remember 16rpm discs, you really are old!

You call that a floppy disk?

They gotcha!!

I did. I am.

But far too many close to me did not.

Good one! I asked my 45 year old daughter if her teenage daughters could connect the names with the correct object. They are baffled.

A phone cord really shouldn’t be included since most businesses still use landlines.

I knew them all, including the Brannock Device, the foot measuring tool.

I’m proud to be officially old.

I guess i’m old! They left out phone cord.

If you’re really old you remember floppy disks in paper sleeves, not protected in plastic. Unfortunately, I remember paper tape and core memory.

16?

I believe the “foot measurer” is called a Brannick device (not sure of the spelling).

Frank is a joyless fuddy-duddy and Nancy’s a ditz. They deserve each other.

Aced it.

Anyone ever step on one of those old pull tabs?

…several times a day?

How does identifying a “foot measuring device” make you old? I haven’t had to have my shoe size measured in decades, but don’t they still use those same devices? If not, then how do children and adolescents whose feet are still growing find out what their current shoe size is?

Or perhaps you are simply aware of things around you.

Yeah, that’s how it usually works.

That foot measuring thing is a Branok device…

The foot measurer is still to be found in shoe stores. Took the kiddos to get their new shoes yesterday and all of them used it.

That one on the bottom right is a diskette, or a “ket.” A floppy disk was larger (5 1/4 inches) and made of thin cardboard. A ket was 3 1/2 inches made of plastic.

Foot measuring device AKA Brannock Device.

The foot measuring thing (whatever it’s called) is still used, isn’t it? What is it called anyway? I have no idea.

For those who are interested, here’s today’s omitted title panel:

Https://fostersdailydemocrat-nh.Newsmemory.com/

(It’s on Page 4 of the comics section.)

Here’s an idea: What about a week with a storyline focusing on the dad? We don’t even know what he does for a living.

That is not a floppy disc. It is a stiffy; but I don’t remember which came first.

I knew them all, and I already knew I am old… Getting older beats the heck out of the alternative.

Omg, I still have my records, my cassette tapes and cd’s. And I watched the landing on the moon in 1969, drinking tang while Armstrong made his first step. Man, I’m old!

“Old”, meh. I have 78s in my record collection. Age is a state of mind.

It’s the Brannock Device.

I forgot about flash cubes!

16 in a phonograph? I had to Google that one. (Actually 16⅔, which is ½of the 33⅓) They were quite rare and were never considered commercially viable as they were mainly for spoken word, not music. My first record player was in the early 60s. My parents had a nice one for the time that likely dated to the mid-50s. And I have had many different turntables over the years. Every single one was 78-33⅓-45. I never saw one with 16 rpm.

They’re really old if they are playing that game from a piece of paper!

8/8.

Aww…

Foot sizer (or shoe sizers?) still come in handy, at least for kids

The tobacco industry once ruled the world when theyput ashtrays in cars. But we have DRIVEN T HE INVADERS INTO THE SEA!!

16 RPM phonograph record?? When did that happen? (I would have guessed, in a pinch, 33 45 78, but I don’t remember ever seeing a turntable that would play both 33 and 78 rpm.)

“Foot Measurer?” That’s a BRANNOCK DEVICE! And shoe stores still use those!

Why no new ’toon for August 19?

Actually the foot measurer is still used in many shoe stores.

Isn’t the foot measurer still in use?