Originally Posted By: JBMat
As I am past 35 I can identify and use the tools shown, minus the slide rule. Never learned.

Dad showed me once how to use a slide rule and I did practice with his a couple of times. I don't know if I could do it today.

Originally Posted By: JBMat
Now they start map classes with the memnoic "Never Eat Soggy Weenies" - north east south west - to get the rudiments of a map into the heads of the trainees.

The one I learned in fifth grade is, "Never Eat Sour Watermelons."

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday