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skeets

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Reminds me back in the early 90’s I was training a young lady to run an even then antiquated accounting system for an insurance company. To enter a payment you signed on to the mainframe via a CRT which gave you a blank screen. You had to memorize a bunch of codes to go through the screens to enter payments. Of course we used acronyms for everything and the codes to access the various screens were acronyms. Entering a payment was referred to as “entry”. All made logical sense to me.

Not long into the training, this young female trainee asks, “Who the hell was the man who wrote this program??” Told her I didn’t know and didn’t understand why she was asking. She said, “Because to do my job I go to the PMS program and do entry on the PUSC screen.” Told her I still didn’t get why going to the Policy Update Statistical Screen in the Policy Maintenance System was a problem. She said, “Doing entry on the PUSC screen. Pronounce it and see if you can figure out why I’m sure the guy that wrote this is somewhere laughing his ass off.” I pronounced it (thankfully not out loud). Told her thanks, I’ll never be able to look at that the same way again.
I dont get it
 

armylifer

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Pronounce pusc, put it in the sentence about doing entry, and maybe you will… He may not be getting any pusc at home.
Pronounce pusc, put it in the sentence about doing entry, and maybe you will… 🤷‍♂️
He may not be getting any pusc. That would cloud the brain.
 
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armylifer

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While we are on the subject of old.... I have had a party line telephone, a phonograph with 16, 45, and 78 rpm. Wax records, and a hand crank telephone. Just saying...
 
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Biker1mike

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While we are on the subject of old.... I have had a party line telephone, a phonograph with 16, 45, and 78 rpm. Wax records, and a hand crank telephone. Just saying...
We never had a 16 RPM player but our local guiding eyes for the blind had one for talking books.
The wife loved her 45's but I was always a 33 1/3 guy. Her sugary teenybobber stuff drove me crazy.
 

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I was the remote and router. There was a 2ft pipe wrench left out in the mudroom. That was used to turn the antenna till dad yelled to stop or say go back the other way 🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
We had a rotator. I remember it working one time. Later, it was glued together after someone knocked it off the TV.