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Saturday, January 23, 2010

A Girl's Best Friend

In my year at MIT (1957-58) the coeds, as part of the spring follies, did their version of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend, but in those long-ago days it was "slide rules are a girl's best friend."  My slide rule (given to me by my uncle) and Burrington's was all we were allowed to use in exams. (The picture is from Wikipedia) Now we use our lap tops and desk tops, which seem to have replaced the hand-held calculators that came so soon afterward.  Bob Whalley found this gem on YouTube, but here it is "the prayerbook is a girl's best friend."  I wonder how many other parodies of this song are out there.  Enjoy.