Because I don't think anyone uses abacuses anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference

Why don't we all just mothball our computers and dust off our abacuses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Payroll Tax Hikes, Keynesianism, and the Recession: A Reply to Drum and Krugman, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

My first drafts always look like abacuses, those little lines are -- well -- everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commas 'n' sh*t] Reference

The crew and passengers waited for the engineers to return from their abacuses and papers and quills.    From Wordnik.com.  [aborted beginnings] Reference

So to calm our nerves, we got out our abacuses and did some initial fooling around with projected popular vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Thoughts on an Obama ‘Turnout Effect’ | Disinformation] Reference

It had a good amount of stuff, and really good explanations, and hands-on things I now understand how abacuses work!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

Our very culture depends on tolerant mathematics, not fringe lunatics with their slide rules and abacuses and Stonehenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davis Sweet: Mathematics Extremists Must Become Tolerant] Reference

Since then, he has turned the site into a virtual shopping mall, where the company and thousands of independent merchants sell just about anything from abacuses to zithers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Read] Reference

The current Emperor dreams of space travel and has commissioned a team of mathematicians (called Computators) to wield their abacuses (abacuses!) and make that dream a reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Chris Roberson's Celestial Empire Stories (Part 1)] Reference

Ombak Ampang Mall 301A, another browser's delight, is much more of a Southeast Asian enterprise, with colorful children's toys, vintage abacuses and vivid Sri Lankan textiles collected from founder Simon Gan 's extensive travels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kuala Lumpur Update] Reference

When Joellen gets a little drunk, she forgets that she hates me for some reason or another, and like last year we will probably wind up in the back seat of her Ford Escort, on top of textbooks and abacuses, clawing at each other and bringing back the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs of the Humpback Whale]

The computational work of the input-output analysis (inversion of the matrix by an inferior pivot method, necessary because of that absence) was performed by thousands of people, for months using abacuses or turning the handles of primitive mechanical calculators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Vladimir A. Masch: Balanced Capitalism] Reference

Nerdly joy in the knowledge that the plural of "abacus" is "abacuses".    From Wordnik.com.  [Schmutzie.com] Reference

Or are the US album charts counted by hand, using huge ledgers and abacuses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Rock And Roll Fun] Reference

Pupils seated around a table for a maths lesson struggled with their abacuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Sinchew -] Reference

LTD Commodities 'wood abacuses recalled by MT Bureau - September 24, 2008 - 0 comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference

She passed out small abacuses to each student and worked with them as she demonstrated double-digit numbers and simple addition.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The abacuses used by the district have 10 rows, each with 10 beads, which help children understand place value in the base-10 numbering system.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I blow raspberries of derision at the scoffers and doubters ... and my IPad and I will leave them in the dust where the unused abacuses are rotting away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Mathematicians have racked their brains and abacuses, for the good of society, in order to help us all choose wisely the person who shares our king-size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher] Reference

Listen to me, Sara Face Alternative, I would need a varsity team of 102 math-club geeks plucking away at their abacuses for 84 weeks to calculate that number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference

Students at Joan K. Mendel Elementary School at Yokota Air Base, Japan, use sorobans, or Japanese abacuses, to solve math problems during a demonstration Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stars and Stripes] Reference

Washington -- Thousands of wood abacuses made in China and sold in the United States are being recalled because they present a choking hazard, U.S. safety officials say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference

For their bank managers, however, it means it's time to get new abacuses, with a British study revealing that the Bronx Bombers receive the highest average salaries in world sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Traditionally, children with visual disabilities are taught to solve mathematical problems using abacuses, tools that may seem antiquated in today's world and foster stigmatization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Thousands of wood abacuses made in China and sold in the United States are being recalled because they present a choking hazard, U.S. safety officials say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

They have wielded abacuses in secret as diligently as they have embraced in public the job of virile rock striplings, something a generation of short-sighted indie musicians had shunned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Wii games drop in price faster than competition - Filed under: News, Sales The research bods at EEDAR have got their abacuses out and calculated that Wii games are more prone to "price protection" than titles on rival machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

The abacus of each of the piers, as well as that of each central shaft, is round; but in the whole of the choir the abacuses are either square, or square with the corners cut off. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].] Reference

So a squadron of accountants sit down with their abacuses and calculate how much it will be possible to squeeze from Asia Province annually for the next five years, and then the bid for the contract is made. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

We may as well use abacuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference

Aardvarks 'abacuses abate academia accordingly as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of Dreaming Poetry by Peter E. Williams] Reference

600 abacuses as a service project later this month, Child said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Are computers better than abacuses?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Chicks dig abacuses 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rangerrob Rednecks - Redneck Stories and Jokes - Redneck News RSS Feed Available] Reference

We'll be deafened by clicking abacuses.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]