Vanity: Joe says to stay home and listen to the “phonograph.”

The debate | 9/12/2019 | Biden

[Vermont Lt]

How come no one is talking about Biden rambling about how we should stay home at night and listen to the radio, record player, phonograph.....Victrola, High Fi, Graamphone, The Edison?

This stuff is great.

[Lurker]

Put some Spike Jones on the box.

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[Little Ray]

I prefer the latest jazz numbers.
Did you know you can get electric phonographs now?

[Red Badger]

.....and look at the stereopticon .................

[euram]

next, he’ll suggest we all go to a minstrel show.

[Verginius Rufus]

Chat is French for "cat." They couldn't foresee that the primary purpose of the internet would be sending cat videos.

[Tucker39]

No, Joe! That is a turntable. It has no amplification or speakers. All it does is soon the recorded disk and pick up the information impressed thereupon. Without amplification and speakers, nobody hears it.

[maggief]

[Fiji Hill]

There WAS television in 1929...

But FDR wasn't president.

[weezel]

Isnt he the one who once said that fdr went on TV to talk about something?

[Tucker39]

“soon” = spin. Stupid autofill! And the company tells me it CANNOT be turned OFF. So one must proofread every jot and tittle just to avoid some autofill gibberish.

[Moltke]

Rowan Atkinson - Grammophone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco

[Fightin Whitey]

Manual transmission.

[dead]

'Did Biden's teeth almost fall out?' Twitter users joke that the former VP had a dental malfunction when he struggled to answer a question and mock him as 'grandpa' for saying kids should listen to 'record players'

[Grimmy]

Maybe they were trying to get ahead of that problem and prevent that curse by not allowing it to be named Cat?

[Songcraft]

There ya go!

[Songcraft]

You're a wealth of knowledge, Fiji Hill!   I always learn something new from you on these music posts.   (That's quite a collection of 78's you have there, too!   Do you have any Gene Autry, or Roy Acuff ones in there?)

[morphing libertarian]

In the 50s my mother, who always had music going in the house, was member of the RCA victor record club. A new 78 every month, Rosemary Clooney, Eddie Fisher and so many others.

We moved to cal in 59. When we unpacked, no 78s, no baseball cards, no comic books, none of my sisters elvis 45s or posters. “We don’t need them here,” my mother declared.

[Fresh Wind]

If Biden said Roosevelt was president in 1929, then Roosevelt was president in 1929.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Mentioning record players is hardly out of touch, considering vinyl is on a pace to outsell CDs this year. But even if he did have a flashback, so what?

There are plenty of real issues we can hit him with. Screaming "record player" at the top of our lungs only detracts from them.

[Vermont Lt]

you Can have your own opinion. I don’t care if you think it’s not worthy of pointing out.

Rambling like a mental patient is not something I need in a leader. It really is that simple.