Pulp Librarian

Old books, movies and music. Keeping Twitter busy since 2014.

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Hello, and welcome to the pulp library, a bibliothèque of bemusement! You can find my previous threads here: https://t.co/wmGQuDl6bO

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Dracula, disturbed before his morning coffee...

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Look at that cute li'l fella...

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New marketing idea for LLMs:

"With AI every day is Y2K!"

Nostalgia sells!

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After Dark, December 1978.

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After Dark, July 1972.

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After Dark, March 1976.

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@maggiewestrum A very odd one!

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Adventures in Babysitting, by Elizabeth Faucher. Scholastic Books, 1987.

Faucher did a number of movie and TV tie-in novels, including two Charles In Charge books, the Addams Family and White Fang 2.

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The 1980s saw the next big thing in sophisticated drinking: Le Piat d'Or. Marketed as the sophisticated starting point for people new to wine, it rapidly became Britain's best selling wine brand.

The French connection was a bit of a poisson d'Avril, as the brand was little known in France. But it did give dads an excuse to joke 'bring up the Piat!' at the dinner table, to much bemusement from their children.

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For a more relaxed soirée you might plump for Babycham. A sparkling pear cider initially popular in agricultural circles, this was the first alcohol advertised on British commercial TV.

It was marketed as a Champagne style celebratory drink in individual bottles with an Alpine chamois on the label. And under the licensing laws you could drink it at age 16 in a pub, as long as you were having a meal and the landlord didn't object.

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Today's Morning Practice

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I had questions. So, I had to look it up because, I mean, Gene Tierney.

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National Lampoon poster, October 1974.

I prefer the old spelling.

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Blue Nun Liebfraumilch. Insanely popular, partly due to relentless advertising. If you only had wine at Christmas it was probably this.

It was marketed as the wine you could drink through all courses: prawn cocktail, duck à l'orange, Black Forest gateaux. It all goes with Blue Nun!

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But did I really need to? Aren't all spreadsheets exactly the same and basically unchanged since 1995 when they added nicer colours to it?

The spreadsheet is now a perfect Platonic form and no further changes are required or warranted.

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Has anything genuinely new happened to Excel in the last 30 years? Anything?? I mean things people want, not weird things nobody ever uses.

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Now I was always a VisiCalc kinda guy. But I moved with the times. I pivoted. I bought Lotus 1-2-3.

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'Lion tamer' is not hyphenated unless it is used as a compound modifier. You'd think the CIA* would know that.

(*Cigar Institute of America)