Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - stygian

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Word of the Day ^ | 04/09/2008

[VRWCmember]

remember 45s? they are soooo retro!

Heck, I might have even had some of those on 8-track!

[xsmommy]

i disagree with this guy. i think that it was essential that those kids be removed from that Stygian compound. Just because under color of some perverted notion of Christian religion, they believe in polygamy and child rape, does not mean those beliefs should be protected.

[xsmommy]

i never encountered an 8track player. i know xshub had one prior to my knowing him.

[Gabz]

Good morning all.....

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Our stygian weather is surpassed only by the prospect of Hussein Obama in the White House.

[SoothingDave]

8 Tracks were great! How could you never have had one? You would be listening to your favorite song and then right in

[SoothingDave]

Click clunk

[SoothingDave]

the middle it would switch to the next track.

[Gabz]

remember 45s? they are soooo retro!

And probably worth a fortune!!!!

[xsmommy]

i didn’t own a car til i was out of law school! my dad offered to buy me a car if i remained in Pgh after graduation, but since i wanted to move to DC i did not get one. my bro had a sporty rust and brown colored maverick!

[xsmommy]

really? i always think of that kind of stuff as junk. My dad had 78 rpm classical music discs in the basement for years.

[martin_fierro]

stygian

Is Tangy.

[SoothingDave]

8 Tracks weren’t just for cars.

[xsmommy]

i love that little face!!

[xsmommy]

they weren’t? wow. i never knew. honestly, i don’t even recall friends having them. what years specifically were they in vogue?

[Gabz]

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure ;)

Seriously, depending on the condition some of them, as well as those 78s, and 33 LPs can bring in a pretty penny.

We’ve got stacks and stacks of them. One of these days we plan on burning them to CD and then selling the whole lot of them.

[Jaded]

I have that CD! Great song.

[SoothingDave]

In the late 70s and early 80s one could get portable 8 track players. My parents had a all-in-one stereo unit with turntable, radio and 8 track. They must have gotten that in the mid 70s.

When sister #1 went to college in 1980, she had a stereo with turntable, 8 track and cassette.

Next year sister #2's stereo just had a cassette, no 8 track.

So some time in the early 80s 8 track died.

[xsmommy]

i love 80s radio! each day i rediscover something like that!

[xsmommy]

my parents had a stereo contained in a piece of furniture in the living room that played records. i did not go to college with a stereo, i was born a poor white child : )