Despite your age, you likely know what these two items are. If you know how the two were used together, you’re probably old.
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Age Test: Do You Know How These Two Items Are Linked?
Posted By: Rocco Penn on June 18, 2011
21
Well, from my own experience those many long years ago…the cassette tape would often get twisted or stuck and the pencil could be put through the center holes to manually wind/rewind the tape to hopefully fix the problem. :) Yes, I'm old even if that's not the right answer! :)
If you're old enough to know what a "ghetto blaster" is, you're old enough to know their hunger for cassettes, and the need to keep a good ol' HB handy.
I'm 21 and i used to rewind my tapes, or pull the band back in when it got all f*cked with pencils all the time, that or my pinky finger, that hurt like a b*tch sometimes though
how else are you supposed to wind in loose audio tape?
I'd go with "older than 30," myself, not 40. Walkmen, boomboxes, and tapes were everywhere in the 80's (when I was growing up), and a lot easier for a kid to use than record players and records.
Total flashback, though.
Insert the pencil into one of the spools and turn it to reel a loose tape back to its proper tension.
Use the pencil to manually adjust tape in the cassette when it tangles or gets looped out
I am a recording engineer. The juxtaposition of those two objects fills me with horror. Thanks!!
I've used one to wind the other; or at least to make sure the tension was adequate to make sure the tape didn't get wound up in a player's mechanism and break. That sucked. Especially when it was KISS. Or REO Speedwagon. Especially Boston or Journey. Chicks hated that.
Hey! I'm not old and I understand the relationship there!
I did just turn 33….I refuse to admit I'm getting older…..
I always found a BIC pen to be a better de-sticktion device.
The pencil makes an excellent tape winder when needed. What did I win?
Heh. If you can even identify both of them you are probably over 40.
Wind 'em up!
I am NOT old! Old-er, yes. OLD, NO! :(
The pencil eraser could be used to cleanupf the read/write head on the cassette player
I know, I know! And I'm 37! :-D
Obviously, you use the pencil to write something on the tape's label.
Either that, or you use the pencil to rewind the tape :D
You need them so that you can rewind the tape and save on batteries for your crappy Walkman! Rewinding a tape ran through AAs like crazy
Is 28 old, these days?
I'm 16 and I knew this. >.<
I remember winding my tapes up like this! And I'm only nineteen! So much for the 30+ theory! :)