Thanks for the memory. When I got married, my best man and mate tied my tie for me and he used a Windsor knot because he said it looked neater than the normal knot. I have no idea how he tied it, and even today I could not tie one. When I took the tie off, I pulled it over my head still tied, and it hangs in the wardrobe to this day, Windsor knotted, ready to be put on again. That would be 1971.Thinking about the subject of this piece, and getting ready for the day, I opened my wardrobe and looked at my collection of ties….and, fyi, I always used a Windsor knot.
A slide rule has a scale marked based on logs. So adding the lengths is the same as adding the logs.Vaguely recall that log tables and slide rules are related. Adding logs together is the same as doing multiplication on a slide rule. Working in a "chemi" lab meant we used a 20 inch slide rule or one of those rotary ones and that removed a lot of the guessing!
John, i remember guessing stick but not the SR. As I said earlier we were not allowed to use in a statistics class.Thinking about the subject of this piece, and getting ready for the day, I opened my wardrobe and looked at my collection of ties….and, fyi, I always used a Windsor knot.
It is also most impressive that there has been all this conversation about slide rules, and nobody has used the term “guessing stick”. Do I recall correctly, that people used to add “SR” after calculations done on a slide rule so as to imply “this may not be absolutely accurate, but if that is needed I’ll do it longhand”?
The biggest problem would be tying a Windsor for someone else, either your mate had very good spatial awareness or he stood behind you and reached over your shoulders to do it. While being able to tie a Windsor with no trouble I now have to resort to ready made dickie bows! I always think this is odd, because I can tie my shoes. Fortunately the number of times I need to wear a bow tie is tending closer to zero as each year passes.Thanks for the memory. When I got married, my best man and mate tied my tie for me and he used a Windsor knot because he said it looked neater than the normal knot. I have no idea how he tied it, and even today I could not tie one. When I took the tie off, I pulled it over my head still tied, and it hangs in the wardrobe to this day, Windsor knotted, ready to be put on again. That would be 1971.
Andrew.
Pete, it’s going in a hurry!cash will soon be out of fashion
As they say Pete "Here today, gone tomorrow"cash will soon be out of fashion
pre covid...... love the selection of caps, me thinks caps will NEVER go out of fashionI think we can say that hats had definitely gone out of fashion and we won't see a scene like this at Villa Park these days!
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Thought that was the crowd at the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band concert. I was there and it seems that long ago now.I think we can say that hats had definitely gone out of fashion and we won't see a scene like this at Villa Park these days!
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Bloody Hell Nan you had an Arsenal of weapons.Hat pins could be considered an offensive weapon by 1969. Viv.View attachment 170100
We called it a 'slip stick' at university but I think that was an 'in-group' thing, just as hole punches or staplers got called 'grompers' from the sound that they made!nobody has used the term “guessing stick”.
Spargone, we used the slip stick term but had forgotten about it. I remember guessing stick because we could not use on Statistics. Our Statistics was used for process analysis and control. WOW you have taken me back a long way!We called it a 'slip stick' at university but I think that was an 'in-group' thing, just as hole punches or staplers got called 'grompers' from the sound that they made!
There was a fine balance to be had with a slide rule, you wanted it to slide easily but also to stay put once you had it set up. I found them useful for working with resistive voltage dividers. I set the ratio that I needed then ran my eye along the rule looking for near matches of a 'preferred value' resistor on each scale, i.e. 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 27, 33, 39, 47, 56, 68, or 82. You can't do that with a calculator, however precise.