Retro Yakking

Greetings, Yak followers (yes, all 0 of you)! It is I, Jerry Toejam, the mutant half brother of Terry Wogan, here to present to you the finest, most choice cuts of the week’s comments [puts generic easy listening music on the gramophone]. This is a new section of Retro Yakking that represents you, the reader with a series of hand-picked responses to posts made right here on this very website. The one that I am writing on right now. Here.

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Gourmet stamps

Paul Baines replies to my allegation that stamps don’t taste as good as they used to with a fascinating piece of information… and some sort of an irony disclaimer.

I think it used to be a mix of boiled down bones and white sugar - I should have the recipe somewhere if you ever want to recreate the those heady days of addictive stamp licking Harry - I thought they’d made them self-adhesive now - just peel and stick - or is my local Post Office a cut above the norm? :/

Harry Yack’s response: Well, that sounds mightily disgusting, boiled down bones? Urgh… certainly hope they aren’t human bones. And… self… adhesive? Erm… ahh. Oh dear. I suddenly need a lie down…

Hard Drive destruction

Seems The Yak’s personal hard drive disposal methods have opened the floodgates for others to share their own, often highly personal tips…

• We like to blast our old computers with guns during target practice sessions, then burn the computers on a bonfire, then sift through the ashes and scatter them to into the river… - Poker Guru
• I’d favor sticking it in the arena when a horse is being lunged. It’s not as much weight as an elephant, but it’s easier to get to the crusher, the horse will go over the hard drive multiple times and with more solid feet, and the horse gets some exercise into the bargain. - Ravyn, Exchange of Realities
• I’m all for the Office Space treatment. A couple of drop kicks and a baseball bat. Booyah. - Chowner, Free the Unicorns

HY: Ah, all methods worth noting - I especially would like to horse-trample my next discarded hard drive. Maybe we should compile these in one large list and send them to the BBC? It’s worth a try - who knows, maybe they’d print them.

Best of the rest

But wait… it’s not over yet. Time for one last collection of foot scrapage…

• Actually a cardboard Dell laptop works a lot more reliably than a real one.  — Dan, Using Humor

HY: As each day passes, I begin to wonder whether my computer is actually made from cardboard. The fact that it is flammable cannot be a good sign…

• Pennies (British and North American) are also my preferred currency for firing from a slingshot - usually in groups of four to get that shotgun effect. But I don’t drink as much as I used to, so I might not be remembering that correctly. - Sinister Dan

HY: At school, “penny pickers” were hugely marginalised. Once you were branded as such, your life literally ended as you received a daily torrent of abuse from the rich kids that could afford shoes as opposed to trainers. Sob. We have to end this now, it’s getting too emotional…

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