Posted on 09/09/2004 1:12:11 PM PDT by dangus
This is hardly absolute proof, but it is evidence of a forgery:
Word processors bump words from one line to the next to allow the most possible writing on a line without causing a word to be broken, and of course, you automatically start the next line, without even noticing this after a while.
Typewriters didn't work that way. They cued you to start a new line with a little bell that went off as you approached the end of a line. For anyone who did much typing, this became extremely Pavlovian: the bell went off, and you whacked the "carriage" to the starting position of a new line. Typically, this was about eight or ten characters away from the end of the line.
Well, the difference is that a word processor will often fit an extra short word after the point at which a typist would have started a new line. True, a poor typist will often hear the bell go off and decide "Aw, heck, I can squeeze an extra word in." But any real typist will be typing fast enough that they will just smack the carriage over.
Well, guess what? The placement of line breaks suggests that the CBS document was produced by a word processor, not a typewriter.
Excellent news! Thanks for posting this.
I want to hear about the ragman, too, sac ...
Shouldn't the memo to W have a serial number? Doesn't all official DoD correspondence have a serial number? If so, that number should be recorded in a log book somewhere, though probably long-destroyed.
I was actually refering to the address for the 111th Squad w/ zip of 77034 (the PO Box Address on a doc image in another thread)..
This story is getting more and more interesting. It would take mighty big balls for "See B S" to send a known forgery to the WH and then use it for a program. If shown to be true, I would predict the end of "See B S" getting press passes at all to the WH from that point forward. If they just put out lies, why bother to have them there at all?
Who knows, I know this is how it is done a lot, shooting documents would be so time and resource consuming compared to just a USB scanner, and no one would blink an eye. I am just trying to get us to cover our ass by askin:
Are these images of the real documents, because if they are (proceed with selectragate)
-- l8s
-- jrawk
You are absolutely correct about this. I remember being ingrained to either stop at a short word or use a "-" to break up the word and continue because there was no such think as wordwrap on a typewriter. I was looking at the (fake) document last night and something was really bugging me about it...this is it.
>>This has already been explored in depth. <<
Yes, I know. I even linked to that page. But I picked up on something that they appear to have missed.
ROFLMAO !!!!
Yeah, but you could sure get a good buzz off that purple correction fluid!
Ahhh, memories. :-)
When the teacher would hand out a stack of purplish hot-off-the-presses dittos... and the entire class would put them up to their noses and take a good sniff.
(Just like in art class, with those magic markers that smelled like different fruits...and the black ones smelled like licorice. Mmmm, good stuff) ;-)
Right.
But 5000 Longmont #8 is NOT the fighter base address.
It was Bush's "old" (civilian) address, before he moved.
>>You didn't whack a Selectric.<<
If you type like I do, you whack a Selectric. :^) Doesn't do anything, but it feels better.
ROFLOL!!! You should've made it say September 9th(superscript).
>>Or dittos. What a mess those were!
(Yikes! I'm old too)<<
Are you kidding me? Dittos are cheaper than photocopiers. I still use them for my classes. (Aahhh, the joys of working for a pubic school.)
PUBLIC school.
Zheesh.
Nah, come to think of it, the way things are going lately...
I was just being a smart a**
Correct.
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