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[misstia]

Started scanning fun with a June 1975 Woman's Day....just one for tonight...

For women only!! personal electronic calculator...but what happens if a man uses it??

Comments

[wasabirobot.livejournal.com]

If a man uses it he will grow breasts.

[fofalex.livejournal.com]

HFS, we had one of these when I was very little!

I used it and I don't have breasts. Would've made puberty very complicated.

[nosyparker.livejournal.com]

Slimline design for easy vaginal storage!

[fifteensixty.livejournal.com]

You win.

[zabigdog.livejournal.com]

Winning win win

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Wow. $40. I bought my first calculator the next year (although t'was in England and cost me 5 quid).

6 years later you were gtting them free when you developed your film.

[morwen_peredhil]

I think my mom had that calculator. No word on whether my dad ever used it.

[ilex011-reboot.livejournal.com]

Because, you know, we women positively collapse holding anything lighter than a feather. Which leads me to believe that the "recipe" posted yesterday for a tuna gelatin "salad" was intended to MOCK us and our muscular deficiencies. God only knows how much that thing weighs once you add all the crap ingredients to it...

[hexapod.livejournal.com]

you can add, subtract, divide, and multiply all in one continuous operation [BUT IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A SQUARE ROOT YOU'RE FUCKED] [UNLESS YOU KNOW NEWTON'S METHOD] [GOOD LUCK AND GOODSPEED]

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

I once in 6th grade asked my math teacher how to take square roots without a calculator and he got twitchy and said you don't want to know...

[rozebud.livejournal.com]

Operates on just 2 penile batteries?

Oh, wait - *adjusts glasses* - never mind.

[fofalex.livejournal.com]

I kept seeing the same thing.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

That does look off, doesn't it? It's been a while since I've heard of “penlight batteries,” but at least it's spelled right. This, now - does it mean AAs, or AAAs?

[rozebud.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I've heard of “penlight batteries,” but at least it's spelled right. This, now - does it mean AAs, or AAAs?

I don't remember! And I'm old enough to know...I guess I just didn't pay attention.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Duh. Penlight. It's AA batteries: That's what they were developed for. (AAA batteries I think came along later.)

[amadoj0nes.livejournal.com]

ding!

[albear.livejournal.com]

That's because women are dumb and suck at math they need calculators. Men are smart and dont need to use such things! ;)

Seriously, wth?

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Look, you market where you can, y' know? You should see the “Barbie” crap I see every day. It's just the same junk, but you print that word on it, presto, it's for that demographic.

Put a “Banana Splits” appliqué on it, this self-same calculator can be marketed to kids. Waste not, want not.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

An INCH thick? This thing performs only four mathematical functions and it's twice as big as my 60 GB iPod. You've come a long way, baby.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

That's a hell of a lot of copy. I guess maybe people needed calculators explained to them more?

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Oh, the entire ad screams Technophobia Salve. Look at it - a big flower cratered right on top of the thing, a semi-classical, vaguely New-Age image of a woman beyond that, and long, soothing, explanatory text of how wonderful it is and how it won't harm you and it's so easy to learn to use and you'll just love it… Yeah. This was not geared to techies.