1920s-style death ray? What?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I hate not getting references, and it seems that you young’uns are beating me to the game.

I’ve noticed that people around the SDMB are referring to 1920s-style death rays. (As opposed to 1940s-style death rays (Now with Plutonium)?) I don’t understand it, and I would like a clarification.

I’m feeling like Og now: Old and slow. Excuse me while I write some 4004 assembly.

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There was a thread, that made thread spotting in General Questions about some sort of weapon and someone replied with something like

Oh 1920’s-style death rays

and then multiposted about four times.

This is where the current trend started.

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Go to GQ and look for Scalar Weapons.

We got a little enthusiastic. :smiley:

4

“A little enthusiastic”. Yup. And the sun is warm. :wink:

Derleth, brace yourself – you’ll discover that the death rays have miscegenated with pie and burning dogs into forms too dreadful to contemplate. :smiley:

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Eddy: I’m used to miscegenations from beyond history that wait until the stars are right.

I’ll be careful.

And I was going to click into that thread. It dovetails nicely with a conversation a paranoid delusional and I had once.