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I'm older than 16, but clearly not old enough to get this joke

• jamesbressi 17y ago
  It took me a second too... I think she verbally said "12 in" not realizing that her bosses memo meant 12 inch? It would be pretty funny/silly in person. Or, maybe the fact no one ever really identified them by inches, rather as "a 33" or "a 45"?
  • stevejohnson 17y ago
    I doubt the cashier would have done much better with 33 and 45.
  • anigbrowl 17y ago
    In the trade they're 7 inch and 12 inch, because many dance records are on 12 inch platter sizes but you play them at 45 (revolutions per minute on the turntable). Protip: those dots you see around the edges of the turntable on DJ gear are not decorative; they're spaced so that one row seems to sit still (due to persistence of vision) depending on whether the platter is rotating at 33 or 45 rpm, and the degree to which the rows appear to slide past each other is a visual indicator of how much the record is sped up or slowed down by the pitch control, which usually allows a 10% variance (for mixing together tunes of different tempos).