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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #120 on: August 28, 2012, 11:39:46 AM »
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #121 on: August 28, 2012, 05:15:56 PM »
.....you know what those two machines on the desk are.


gOOb, thanks for that.  A TYPEWRITER!  A fucking TYPEWRITER!  Oh sweet Christ, how I miss those magnificent machines. :(

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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #122 on: August 28, 2012, 08:43:27 PM »
Didn't you hear D - typewriters are making a come back, particularLEE the manual ones. :o

The kids all want them cause they've never seen a machine with keys you press that can put words directly on paper. ::)

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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #123 on: August 29, 2012, 10:39:56 AM »
1940's Royals are collectible, just find a ribbon
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #124 on: August 29, 2012, 10:47:08 AM »

gOOb, thanks for that.  A TYPEWRITER!  A fucking TYPEWRITER!  Oh sweet Christ, how I miss those magnificent machines. :(
I miss the *snap*snap* sound of a typewriter. It sounds like something important is being done.
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #125 on: August 29, 2012, 01:55:46 PM »
1940's Royals are collectible, just find a ribbon

Every couple of years my IBM Selectric II Self-Correcting needs a tune-up, and the guy who used to do it died...
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #126 on: August 29, 2012, 01:58:23 PM »
...you listen to Stan Boreson's album, "I Just Don't Look Good Naked Any More" over and over.
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #127 on: August 29, 2012, 09:11:46 PM »
when grannies r ur best shot
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #128 on: August 29, 2012, 09:27:57 PM »
...you hear your class song on the oldies station.
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #129 on: August 29, 2012, 10:56:55 PM »
...your high school prom theme was "Moon River".
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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #130 on: August 29, 2012, 11:19:43 PM »
... you have a hard time hearing those old songs.  :'(

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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #131 on: August 30, 2012, 09:03:33 AM »
...you use a pen and paper more often.

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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #132 on: August 30, 2012, 10:26:47 AM »
... you actually use pen and paper and do math the way you were taught in primary school and the young ones look quizically as they take out their cell phones to do the same because they don't know how to do it longhand.   :(

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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #133 on: August 30, 2012, 10:29:55 AM »
... you know who Spiro Agnew and Eugene McCarthy were.  ;D

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Re: You Know You're Getting Old When ...
« Reply #134 on: August 30, 2012, 10:37:50 AM »
Oh, sol, you nattering nabob of negativism! ;)  (Or, wait, maybe that's supposed to be me.)