My, aren’t you special.
:rolleyes:
If tin whistles are made of tin
What do they make fog horns out of?
And you swallow it in spite.
Kids today!
You can play in my yard. The rattlers are bored.
You were expecting 1920’s style death rays or something?
Yes, we sang it around the evening campfire at YMCA summer camp in the late 1950’s.
I actually recognized the song even though I had no recollection of those particular lines! 
It depends on whether the phaser is set on stun or kill.
Spooky intra-GQ SerenDipity[sup]TM[/sup] thread hijack!
On June 1974, the first installation of supermarket scanners entered service in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. This Spectra Physics model A price scanner, is one of those first ten scanners. A package of Wrigley’s chewing gum became the first purchase made with scanners that could read the new Uniform Product Code (UPC or barcode). Mounted within the unit a helium-neon laser projected a beam onto a rotating mirror and thence up through a glass plate on the top surface. The light reflected from the code label on the package and was detected by a photo-diode. A computerized cash register matched the signal from the photo-diode with information in a stored database to determine which product was being scanned.
Cite:http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_892778
I checked the offered data sheet of one of the latest and greatest, NCR RealScan 79 Bi-Optic Imager, and I still couldn’t find the type and power of laser it uses: http://www.ncr.com/wp-content/uploads/RET_NCR_Realscan79-ds.pdf
Elsewhere I read milliwatt, but it’s annoying I can’t just find it.
Common, I’m trying to move this along…
ETA: SCAdian, did you know that word “patten” beforehand or found it digging?
You know, that crossed my mind earlier, but I spared my colleagues.
ETA: Promoting Achievement Through Technology and Instruction for all Students.
PATINS.
- Was that an example of the same sort of Skiffle music that inspired the Quarrymen?
My little smart-assed self actually did that when I was a kid.
My mother wasn’t amused.