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Who knew gramophones could be so dangerous?
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:11 pm
by drh
From one of today's featured articles on Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit:
Hermann Carl Albert Gutzmann, Sr. (29 January 1865 – 4 November 1922) was a German physician. He is considered the founder of phoniatrics as a medical discipline. ... He died of sepsis in November 1922 after suffering a stab wound from a gramophone needle.
Re: Who knew gramophones could be so dangerous?
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:27 am
by travisgreyfox
I think we have all punctured ourselves wayyy too many times with our needles. Well, I guess I should speak for myself
I just never thought it would kill me.
Re: Who knew gramophones could be so dangerous?
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:23 am
by gramophone-georg
drh wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:11 pm
From one of today's featured articles on Wikipedia, the encyclopedia
anyone can edit:
Hermann Carl Albert Gutzmann, Sr. (29 January 1865 – 4 November 1922) was a German physician. He is considered the founder of phoniatrics as a medical discipline. ... He died of sepsis in November 1922 after suffering a stab wound from a gramophone needle.
Sounds like Bolshevik to me...
Re: Who knew gramophones could be so dangerous?
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:17 am
by 1913Concert
That calls to mind an expression my folks used for talkative people when I was a kid: "Vaccinated with a phonograph needle"
Re: Who knew gramophones could be so dangerous?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:48 am
by pallophotophone
Originally said by Groucho Marx in "Horsefeathers" "You haven't stopped talking since I came here- You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle"