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Only makes sense if you remember the original hype on Tomorrow's World etc where they said these amazing things called CDs would even work after being covered in jam or squeezed through a dog, and stuff.
Actually, I'm the only one who remembers that. Maybe the story should be:
'Man who invented CD' dies, is reincarnated as almost identical but slightly better quality 'Man who invented Blu-Ray'
Never mind. Anyway, don't forget your egg hunt. :-)
I remember it, but I wouldn't have thought you were old enough Rick. Pint please.
I remember the original tommorows world thing where they spread jam on a CD, now every time I'm at a certain friends house and a CD skips or sticks due to a stray fingerprint, we all turn to each other and say in a mocking tone "spread jam on it", it never fails to raise a chuckle in that house. So five stars from me.
I watched it on youtube of course, Des. ;-)
Thanks all.
Pints all round.
I well remember what it was like as a kid in the early eighties...mass unemployment, riots In the City and not one format for recorded music that could withstand being smeared with preserve.
"This is the modern world", I say to my son. "All mod cons!"
He thought people had always been able to smear music recordings with marmalade, nutella etc...
I guess setting sons straight is one of the duties of parenthood.
There's still some jam in my vinyl collection, though...
Yes, I'm sure I can remember eating trifle on vinyl, back in the day...
Have you ever tried rubbing marmite into your mp3 collection? My wife left me for a month, last time she caught me at it.
Sadly I am old enough to remember the Tomorrow's World report. The years have evidently not been kind to my cognative capasity. I could have sworn they said you could spread peanut butter on it and it would still play.
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