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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I hope that some day they are able to fix their caps lock key...


3 posted on 12/15/2008 8:24:32 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: null and void
I think they are still running with teletype equipment ...not sure it has lower case....Congress has NOT funded replacements for the antiquated equipment ....
5 posted on 12/15/2008 8:26:46 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: null and void

The all-caps typography reminds me of being stationed in a remote area and having a Teletype machine clacking and printing its all-caps text across the roll of paper.

When a text message had completed and automatically advanced the paper roll several spaces and announced said completion by a bell, it was hard not to see them as important, rush over and tear them off for the boss.

Every message, however everyday and banal it might have been, seemed imbued with importance.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been in all-caps, would it?


12 posted on 12/15/2008 8:35:20 AM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: null and void

lol


14 posted on 12/15/2008 8:41:49 AM PST by meanie monster
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