Posted on 03/19/2018 6:13:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
Whycha’ do it? C’mon, talk, we know ya did it. Oh so... ya won’t talk , eh? We got way’s of makin’ mugs like you talk, get me? :-)
“Who the heck uses a typewriter these days?”
They stole it from the library 75 years ago.
LOL!
I still repair typewriters. IBM Selectrics, old manual typewriters, antique stuff. Yes, ribbons are available. Parts, not so much. Sometimes I have to make parts. High usage IBM stuff is made by a company in Texas and are available. Some parts are not available...that’s when you toss the machine. I’m an IT guy now, but I fix a typewriter or three monthly. It’s more of a hobby now that pays.
I remember the traveling gnomes. The St. Francis thing was on an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries, IIRC. LONG ago — back when it first started. It tickled me so much that I never forgot it. It fould be a fun and harmless joke to play on somebody.
Some of the old ones are really beautiful. I think my Remington must have been from the 1940s:
http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/rem-portables.htm#compact
It would be fun to receive the pics and postcards from the item’s travels.
Geocaching looks like fun, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching
I still have 4 of them but I don’t use them much now.
LOL! With four old typewriters, you have a fitting screen name ;-)
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