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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Made me laugh, anyway.
Evenin' all - we got Ramius over here for the night, gonna watch movies and have pints :~)
I think that's what this is...it doesn't say this year, but it's what my BIL always gets us...
Hi all.
Steve's in the shower...I'm sneakin'.
Jedis are watching The Karate Kid.
Oy vey...
ROTFL!! That was great! I thought about you the other day when I got my latest Vermont Country Store catalog. They have a Smith Corona manual typrewriter for sale there! I think it's about $200!
What movies are y'all watchin?
Huh...I didn't know anyone besides Olivetti still made manual typewriters! I learned to type on a 60s era Smith Corona I bought with my allowance. Found it at a rummage sale or some such thing. Heh...I have my journal from the time I had it, which was just as we got our first computer with a word processor. Even then I was a bit of a luddite, I guess. I must have been eleven or twelve, I'd guess, and, as always, did a lot of attempting to write stories. And I liked the typewriter.
One of these days I want a manual typewriter with an English keyboard. The German keyboard is the one big frustration with that old Olympia. That and the fact that the ribbons are slightly different on the European models, so I actually ended up having to rewind the replacement ribbon onto the old spools. Thought I was just being stupid until I did some searching and found that the European specs were different. Still definitely worth .99 and five bucks for shipping, tho!
Ideally I'd find an old Olympia or Smith Corona...maybe a Remington or Royal, but I've never used either of those.
D'OH! You're right! The manual one IS an Olivetti! They have a Smith Corona as well, but it's an electronic. Interesting that the electronic is $30 cheaper than the manual!
Well...you figure the manual is built to last, is more complex that just putting in a mass-produced system board and a daisy wheel, and probably has a LOT more metal parts than the electronic, and I guess it makes sense...maybe.
When I took a Typing class in high school, we used manual typewriters. I hated them because my fingers would always slip down in between the keys and I'd get hangnails. I loved electric typewriters!
Last night we watched Pirates II - It's pretty corny :~)
Good morning!
~sip~
Corny can be good now and then!
I haven't seen that one yet.
Ungh...is it really freezing rain out there?
In other news ~ in a bizarre twist of events ~ I have disassociated my blog from an alliance of conservative Virginia bloggers. It was a silly dispute with the left (and, believe it or not I stayed out of it completely online). But suffice it to say that it was yet another example of why we're known as the "stupid party."
So, there's that.
See y'all sometime.
Freezing rain? We haven't had any precip all night! Gonna be clear and cold, but dry now, through the weekend if we're lucky.
Have a good time, talk to you later!
My weather thingie said freezing rain...apparently because in some places they had heavy fog that was freezing on road surfaces. Wasn't bad out, except that my gate lock was frozen again.
Jen did not like it much but I thought it was a lot of fun.
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