{"id":1661,"date":"2011-09-26T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2011-09-26T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T15:19:39","slug":"i-have-a-funny-funny-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"I have a funny funny bone"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll either get it or you won’t, and in general it’s probably safer to bet on the latter.<\/p>\n

I found the following while scratching around on The Digital Antiquarian<\/a>*, and it really tickled my funny bone.<\/p>\n

Elias was a banker, so we left with more than most. $1,600 to spend at the outfitters\u2014three yoke of oxen, 2000 pounds of food, boxes of bullets and spare parts: tongue, axle, wheel. Two sets of clothes for each of us. “What kind of clothes?” the children asked.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Who knows?” I said. “The store only sold Clothes. In sets, though. That’s something.”<\/p>\n

They asked what we would eat. “Food,” I said. “Just ‘Food.’ Make your peace with it.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, my frame of reference for all of this<\/a> is relatively recent, I grew up playing Hammurabi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* “Filfre<\/a>” is of course an obscure text adventure game reference.

You’ll either get it or you won’t, and in general it’s probably safer to bet on the latter. I found the following while scratching around on The Digital Antiquarian*, and it really tickled my funny bone. Elias was a banker, so we left with more than most. $1,600 to spend at the outfitters\u2014three yoke of oxen, 2000 pounds of food, boxes of bullets and spare parts: tongue, axle, wheel. Two sets of clothes for each of us. “What kind of clothes?” the children asked. “Who knows?” I said. “The store only sold Clothes. In sets, though. That’s something.” They asked...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}