Gather around, children, while we talk to you about the old days.
Way before there was iTunes, or CDs or DVDs or even cassette tapes that were played in the now-ancient Sony Walkman, there were records. They were made of vinyl and had a groove cut into them.
They were placed on a thing that went around and around, called a turntable, and you put was was called a needle in the grove at the start of the record. If there was a scratch in the record, sometimes the needle would jump back to where it had been a few moments before. When that happened, you'd hear that same bit of song repeated over and over and over, until you got up, picked up the needle, and put if further along the record. Can you imagine? There was no remote to do this. You had to get UP and go OVER to do this. Unthinkable by today's youth. We won't even talk about how we had to get up the change the channel on the TV so we could watch a different one of the FIVE channels available. That would read too much like a horror story.
So yes, it means to repeat himself.
Way before there was iTunes, or CDs or DVDs or even cassette tapes that were played in the now-ancient Sony Walkman, there were records. They were made of vinyl and had a groove cut into them.
They were placed on a thing that went around and around, called a turntable, and you put was was called a needle in the grove at the start of the record. If there was a scratch in the record, sometimes the needle would jump back to where it had been a few moments before. When that happened, you'd hear that same bit of song repeated over and over and over, until you got up, picked up the needle, and put if further along the record. Can you imagine? There was no remote to do this. You had to get UP and go OVER to do this. Unthinkable by today's youth. We won't even talk about how we had to get up the change the channel on the TV so we could watch a different one of the FIVE channels available. That would read too much like a horror story.
So yes, it means to repeat himself.
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In point of fact, if you bring your ear close enough to the needle you can hear faint sounds of the record that is being played, coming from the contact between the needle and the surface of the disk (because it's the scratching of the needle over the surface that generates sounds, which are then go through the amplifier to the sound blasters)