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...I think that what you are describing , AB , was itself a later-years revamp of something that few here would directly remember , as it was changed in the early 60s ~ The thing of phone numbers being described w/a menemomic (??) of this " BEechwood 45789 " or " PEnnsylvania 65000 " (Sp. on PA there??) type , to refer to famous songs from when that was current that used such number-rememberers .

...I saw Melanie claiming she had no double-entendre in mind (Remember , too , she is playing the part of a boy in that song .) , while acknowledging that , yes , perhaps there was something sub-conscious in the back of her mind...In other news: " Puff The Magic Dragon " not about pot ! !! !! !! !! !! Oh , and that reminds me - I've seen occasional " hip " press comments indicating that , apparently , " pot " . as a slang term for wacky weed/marijuana , is apparently considered incredibly old hat...

...I still seem to seem those ! !! What's wrong with me ?:-(...

...Odd audio formats - There was some sort of 60s thing involving 45 RPM singles on flexidiscs (An edited version of the Beatles' " hey Jude " that came out on 'em has some collectability , I think .) .
Actually , should I explain flexidiscs (Brits: Was the equivalent term there " flimsy discs " ?) ? Bendable plastic or cardboard , I remember , for instance , a Dick Clark oldies collection double-LP that had a bonus flexi on cardboard of Dick telling stories ~ I also remember a radio commercial-like thing for a Time-Life LP collection called " The Swing Era " that had " modernized , more pizzaz and power than 78-era recordings " (as in , 1970/71 or so) new versions of Glen Miller , benny Goodman , et al hits ~ I had a couple?? flexis I saved from National Lampoon with excerpts from stand-up comedians' LPs ! (I remember one by Chris Rush...) ~ I just did !
4-track tapes ~ The same concept as 8-tracktapes , but , um , about half the length , albums cut to half the length . Maybe they could make them all double albums ?
In the late 80s , at the time that Tiffany and the Jets were teen-oriented pop stars , some sort of " endless , repeating , loop " sorta lo-fi thjing that had songs by those sorts of artists .
Playtapes ~ This one I actually HAD ! About 10-ish minutes long , four 60s single-length songs at max , mono I guess , they were offered about Christmas '69 and only came out at least for the mass market that year?? There were Beatles ones issued on it (one was pictured on the inside of the old " Live At The Hollywood Bowl " L.P.) , I suppose those may have some collectability .

...This thread has depressed me somewhat , as seeing references to now-gone things that I never really " went through " anyway remind me of how my life was DESTROYED , early on , after I was committed when I was 20... The various versions of that " only " lasted two years or so , but it started a pattern...where my life never really " took off " Please read my latest , " Stolen , hospital..." poor me post .

...Comic books on non-slick , pulp , paper .

...That " latest poor me post " has been - naturally - moved to The Haven just now :--...........

the sound of film projectors.

...I got somewhat melancholy/down from this , from reference to " in-between " things that I , really , never experienced ~ From my 20-ish years nearly straight of beinh homeless (or " semi-just above " being homeless - Actually 19 years straight , from mid-1996 , and a full-out being HL phase in 1985-87-ish , and a 1987-1993 where I was , basically " just above homeless "/being suppoted by my father and SSDI in Green Bay , I had a place , but -) Anyway , " thihgs I never did " . Dial-up or early-computers , say .

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referring to the joys of early computing and dial-up internet surfing in molasses, you did not miss much AFAIC.

...Probably kinda true but it was an easily refer-toable of how I did not " crawl/walk befor I can run/fly " ~ If in fact I do do anything besides my health declining and dying either homeless or in a , perhaps acceptable by comparison , place such as where I am hots/cotting now !
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referring to the joys of early computing and dial-up internet surfing in molasses, you did not miss much AFAIC.[/quote]