What, my English grammar? I'm fairly sure they're not allowed to slice pilots anymore.
In the same building, there was a huge iron-framed puffer machine. It had a horizontal turntable with disposable paper log. Like Decca, they'd stopped wasting the paper years before.
I gave it my best shot. The guy memorising the reading called someone else, and they bid me have another go. I ended up with a crowd - of about four.
I'm not terribly bright, but after about four goes, with them all kind of cheering me on, they were trying to see if I could blow the needle off the dial. I couldn't. Every reading was almost exactly just shy of the edge. It seems I would have been a record-breaker. Which is only worth mentioning because I had been a weezy, sneezy, coughing, excused-of-all-sports, science nerd. I had taken up judo when it was a very new sport and was transformed.
Funny what can happen when you really want to do things.