Phonographs in the Funnies
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Re: Phonographs in the Funnies
A record in my collection, rather than a gramophone...
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Life imitates art: Back when I was a smart-aleck (euphamism) beginning-collector-college-kid, I used to have lots of fun going into those hoity-toity high-end audio salons and asking for steel needles.marco wrote:I just wanted to mention my all time favorite phonograph funny that I clipped years ago. It is a cartoon with an "ancient" looking older woman standing at the counter at "Radio Shack" with the clerk behind the desk yelling out to another clerk.."DO WE CARRY VICTROLA NEEDLES??!!!!epigramophone wrote:......and here is a little story to which many of us can relate :
But the joke's on them! My machines and I are still alive, and most of them are long gone!
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This cartoonist may have been frightened by a Phrynis :