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World's Last Typewriter Factory Closes. Strike that. It's a lie. Too bad this thing doesn't have a delete key.
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I like the way they sound. We still have a couple in the office for forms, but I don't think anyone uses them very much.
The story seems to be bogus, Sarah. A typewriter factory in India recently closed, and somehow that has snowballed into an internet tale of the end of all typewriter manufacturing. Apparently this is just untrue:http://gawker.com/#!5795649/relax-the...
My stepmother has typewriter key jewelry. Yeah, this makes me sad. I still have my old one, though. :)
Jonathan wrote: "The story seems to be bogus, Sarah. A typewriter factory in India recently closed, and somehow that has snowballed into an internet tale of the end of all typewriter manufacturing. Apparently this ..."Whoops. Thanks, Jonathan. I don't mean to perpetuate lies.
It's all lies. I'm actually Lobstergirl in disguise.
Sarah Pi wrote: "It's all lies. I'm actually Lobstergirl in disguise."Wouldn't that be something!
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
And the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Wait, do you want to delete the topic (see thread title)? Cuz I'll delete the topic for you if you'd like, Pi.
What if the power goes out and your paper is still due?I have an old Royal in the garage. My grandmother gave me the typewriter long ago.
Phil wrote: "What if the power goes out and your paper is still due?I have an old Royal in the garage. My grandmother gave me the typewriter long ago."
I was joking about the delete key, but thanks anyway, Heidi! I figured the topic wasn't entirely useless, much like typewriters in a power outage.
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Oy. Am I really the local expert on Manischewitz?
Not only are you the local expert, there's a good chance you may be the only expert.
But I'm really, really not. I refuse to drink their wine. Their matzah is as good as matzah can be. Still, that might be enough to qualify me for the job.
It appears to be a burden you will have to bear until you can get some one else to fill the position.
Heavy hangs the head that wears the matzah crown.
I would probably take the crown off Sarah, there is nothing in the rule book about having to boast about being Manischewitz royalty.
Good point, Jim. Thanks.Anyway, maybe these would be more comfortable:
Anyone else shed a tiny tear at this? I was part of a discussion about a typewriter just a day or two ago. There's one in the library here, and they were discussing getting rid of it, and someone said "No! What if..." and then kind of trailed off, because really he couldn't think of anything that one would need to do on a typewriter rather than a computer.
Still, they have good feel and they clack and they use that great typewriter font that computers try to mimic. And I always get this "but we'll never get that back!" feeling, like when they took my Kodachrome away.
Anyone else gonna miss 'em?