Am I getting soft in my old age?

rpirtle

"Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus"

I loved that movie..Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

BillyMac

rpirtle wrote
"Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus"

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Mark Padgett

I definitely am getting old. I saw a ref buddy of mine at the grocery store this morning. We are both working the same fall kids rec league, although we haven't been scheduled together yet this season. We have worked lots of games together over the years, though. He told me that last spring, when we worked a 5th grade boys game together, he figured out that, assuming the boys were no older than 12, the combined ages of the two of us was a higher number than the combined ages of all 10 starters in the game! Knowing how old both of us are, I thought about it and he's right! Man - I am old. 😮

BillyMac

Mark Padgett wrote
Assuming the boys were no older than 12, the combined ages of the two of us was a higher number than the combined ages of all 10 starters in the game!

Is this an algebra problem?

Mark Padgett

BillyMac wrote
Is this an algebra problem?

Yes. Take out the slide rule from the chest pocket on the front of your jersey.

BillyMac

Mark Padgett wrote
Take out the slide rule from the chest pocket on the front of your jersey.

Mark Padgett: Man, you really are ignorant. The only proper way to carry a slide rule is to carry it in a leather holster attached to one's belt. If one were to carry a slide rule in one's chest pocket, even if it were in a pocket protector, one's friends would make sport of this slide rule fashion fau paux. Yet another reason why officials should be allowed to wear belts, as long as the belt is black.

BillyMac

BillyMac wrote
The only proper way to carry a slide rule is to carry it in a leather holster attached to one's belt.

Of course, there is another option, the slide rule tie clip. My high school chemistry teacher, Mr. Dalton, had one of these, and, man, did he look cool wearing it. And, the slide rule tie clip is a real chick magnet.

26 Year Gap

BillyMac wrote
Of course, there is another option, the slide rule tie clip. My high school chemistry teacher had one of these, and, man, did he look cool wearing it. And, the slide rule tie clip is a real chick magnet.

But who wants to attract biddies?

amusedofficial

I used to know how to use a slide rule, about 30 years ago. I lost interest when I realized it had no function for team fouls.

BillyMac

amusedofficial wrote
I used to know how to use a slide rule, about 30 years ago. I lost interest when I realized it had no function for team fouls.

Multiplication, and division? Yes. Reciprocals? Yes. Logarithms? Yes. Sines, and cosines? Yes. Tangents, and cotangents? Yes. Squares, and square roots? Yes. Cubes, and cube roots? Yes. Some slide rules even had a measuring ruler function.

Addition? Unfortunately, no. Back then, in the midtwentieth century, we had to use a mechanical adding machine for addition.