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More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the joke

More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the jokes, for NTSC, is a weird omission for someone in the industry. Also according to Wikipedia PAL is also backronymed as Pay for Additional Luxury, Peace At Last, Perfection At Last or Pictures Always Lovely, all positive but none that I've heard before. Is there any indication that the store's name is really a reference to the TV standard?

reaperducer 3y ago
More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the jokes, for NTSC, is a weird omission for someone in the industry. We always used Never The Same Color. I worked at five stations in four states, and never heard the "Twice" version until the commercial internet became a thing.
- buran77 3y ago
  Maybe different continents had different versions and they finally aligned when they had the chance to talk to each other. I worked at the places that developed and built the equipment and tech used in TV stations, just across the ocean.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    Did you work for Mr Snell or Mr Wilcox or Mr Tronix?
dylan604 3y ago
Don't forget about PAL-M which was essentially NTSC with a PAL color carrier, but PAL-M decoding had no issues decoding a full NTSC signal. We used to ship NTSC tapes with PAL-M stickers. So, what's the M stand for in your jokes?
- buran77 3y ago
  > your jokes Wish I could claim credit. I didn't even manage to bring them to this thread as you can see above, let alone to the world. As I said in the earlier comment, I was not familiar with any of the PAL joke/backronyms in English or any other language. Could be that the NTSC one was the only one famous enough to travel to no-English speaking countries back then and all the rest were invented as an equivalent.

reaperducer 3y ago

More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the jokes, for NTSC, is a weird omission for someone in the industry. We always used Never The Same Color. I worked at five stations in four states, and never heard the "Twice" version until the commercial internet became a thing.

buran77 3y ago
Maybe different continents had different versions and they finally aligned when they had the chance to talk to each other. I worked at the places that developed and built the equipment and tech used in TV stations, just across the ocean.
- dylan604 3y ago
  Did you work for Mr Snell or Mr Wilcox or Mr Tronix?

dylan604 3y ago

Don't forget about PAL-M which was essentially NTSC with a PAL color carrier, but PAL-M decoding had no issues decoding a full NTSC signal. We used to ship NTSC tapes with PAL-M stickers. So, what's the M stand for in your jokes?

buran77 3y ago
> your jokes Wish I could claim credit. I didn't even manage to bring them to this thread as you can see above, let alone to the world. As I said in the earlier comment, I was not familiar with any of the PAL joke/backronyms in English or any other language. Could be that the NTSC one was the only one famous enough to travel to no-English speaking countries back then and all the rest were invented as an equivalent.