If you're over fifty, post your questions for the under 25 members of DU.

[Baitball Blogger]

No cheating. No google searches allowed and the in-betweens (26 to 49) can play only if they post questions that might stump the young'uns.

Here's my questions:

1) Do you know what a "Girl Friday" is?

2) What comes to mind when you hear the term, "Resting on his laurels."

[In_The_Wind]

1. What do you think the meaning of "chickens have come home to roost" is?

[Xyzse]

2. Oh, I'm not under 25 any more, but I am waaaaay under 50.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Have you ever actually dialed a telephone number?

[orleans]

4. lol! n/t

[In_The_Wind]

6. Or been part of a party-line?

[Brother Buzz]

9. How do you call your buddy who's on your party line?

If you call him directly, you get a busy signal. Nicky and I finally figured it out.

Hint: "ET, call home."

[Downwinder]

13. Two shorts and a long.

He will pick up.

On edit: So will everybody else up and down the creek.

[Brother Buzz]

14. How do you signal two shorts and a long with a rotary telephone?

We discovered if you dial your own number then hung up before you heard the busy signal, all the telephones on the party line would ring.

[Downwinder]

15. Crank on the side of the box.

One turn for a short, two for a long.

You could patch in with an Army surplus Field Telephone.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Everything's up to date in Kansas City

In my area, crank telephones went by the wayside with barbed wire telephone lines in the twenties. This thread addresses people over fifty, not ninety.


Oh, barbed wire telephone lines were not dependable when it rained, but the old batteries are still sitting in the box in my basement.

[Downwinder]

24. Out in the sticks, we still had crank phones in the 50's

That was after we moved into civilization. On the ranch there was no phone, and we had two Kohler plants to generate electricity.

Never used a rotary until I went to my grandfather's in Chicago. First saw TV there too. I remember had a GReenleaf exchange at home and SUperior at the office.

[Brother Buzz]

28. I still have a Kohler plant

It's a four cylinder four horsepower 110v 15A gutless wonder that weighs in at a hefty five-hundred pounds. Now, IT DOES have a crank.

[struggle4progress]

175. When I lived out in the boonies we had a crank phone on a party line in the mid-1970s

[Baitball Blogger]

10. LOL!

Good one. It's like your I-Phone turns into a Facebook and everyone hears your private conversations.

LOL!

[In_The_Wind]

12. I was too young to use the phone at my grandmother's house but it looked funny to me.

Nope, no secrets around that little town in Tennessee.

[Rhiannon12866]

65. We were afraid of the phone at my grandmother's.

If you picked up the receiver, you got an operator!

[In_The_Wind]

75. When I was in high school I became one of those servants for Ma Bell.

Connecting long distance calls, breaking in on calls for emergencies, giving the marine forecast.



Goodness gracious me

[Rhiannon12866]

78. Very cool!

That always looks impossibly difficult!

[In_The_Wind]

80. It really was easy.

Right up until I graduated from high school and decided to work the overnight shift. I couldn't manage to sleep days so I fell asleep at the switchboard way too many times.

[Rhiannon12866]

83. From what I've seen, it looks damn near impossible!

When I had a summer job at an amusement park (Storytown USA ), they needed someone to answer the phone in the office, so asked me to do it, just for the day. I kept connecting everyone to the wrong person and they never asked me to do it again. I was better at driving the train...

[Laffy Kat]

157. Oh it was easy! The hotel I clerked at in the 70s had a switchboard like that.

It was on a much smaller scale, of course, but same thing. The back cords picked-up the incoming calls and the cords in front connected the circuit to the room (which were marked). It was so much fun. My favorite part of the job was working the switchboard. I can still remember the honking noise the big board would make when it "rang." Wow. Haven't thought about that in years.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

82. That's Ernestine! One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingys, three ringy-dingys.....

Real name Lily Tomlin, who got her start on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

[Rhiannon12866]

87. I know, I remember.

She's still a favorite of mine.

[Downwinder]

5. O.K.

1) What is a Shmoo?

2) Who was Joe Btfsplk? and can you pronounce it?

[UncleYoder]

7. Why?

Why do I have a can of Bag Balm in my truck?

[kwassa]

8. Have you ever used a typewriter?

Or a floppy disk?

A cassette recorder?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. I sooo miss my dad's old army typewriter.

So wish we had kept it. I still remember the smell of the ribbon.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Reel-to-Reel with 7 inch reels before cassettes.

If you were an audiophile, that's what you had. Plus a component stereo system.

I had an AKAI reel to reel in high school. Had a buddy in orchestra who would come over on Saturday morning and we'd listen to Die Walkure and Das Rheingold on my machine.

I still use my component stereo. I have a six-stacker CD-cassette unit attached to it. It's great to load up
6 CDs and run it all day without changing anything. I remember the days of 20 minute sides on vinyl records.

[sakabatou]

23. Used all 3

[JonLP24]

143. First post

I can say yes to all questions with confidence.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. My mom had an IBM Executive which was state of the art in 1955.

You could do beautiful work on it. No crappy manual typewriters or Smith-Coronas for me. I took an IBM standard with me off to college in the early 70s and I think the roommates were shocked because I was serious about studying and typing papers.

They did not make a typewriter or a computer program for typing speed that I couldn't jam until about 1999. If you typed too fast on a Selectric, it typed a hyphen instead of the letter you wanted.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. I once interned in an office where a prospective typist was given a test.

She had the choice of selecting a manual or electric typewriter for the test. She picked the manual. Her score was off the charts. Something like 80 WPM.

She was a wonderful employee, but I couldn't help feeling like there was a lot of sorrow in her life. Typing became an escape from her own thoughts. Just my impression.

Oh, "impression." hee-hee. I made a funny.

[Downwinder]

26. I'll bet she got a chuckle when the Repukes said

that there was not proportional spacing before PC's.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

40. And of course, the Repukes are wrong.

The IBM Executive had 32nds of an inch proportional spacing. The backspace clicked in 32nds of an inch, and different letters had different widths. When you had to backspace and erase, you learned to eyeball it.

I couldn't type on a manual. I was too fast. Got my fingers stuck between the keys and that hurt. Took one semester of typing in high school and got to 48 wpm in one semester. Swore off manuals after that.

This is what I'm talking about, in putrid pale green. The ribbon reels were on the sides of the machine, vertically.

[Downwinder]

93. My wife would stay at least one line ahead of wordStar on an 8086.

It was fun to see the lines keep wrapping after she had finished typing.

[CTyankee]

150. What about the Selectric with the ball that whirled around?

That thing was pretty tempermental...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

152. those would burp and print a hyphen when you went too fast.

Yes they were temperamental. I typed on several of those as well.

[pinboy3niner]

156. I don't remember having problems with it, and I LOVED the erase tape

No more Wite-Out!

Still, there was something about those old manual typewriters. Throwing the carriage back and hearing the 'ding.' The feel of the hard keys of an old Royal... I was a journalism student and staff writer and editor for school newspapers from JHS through college, so maybe the manuals made me feel like I was in 'The Front Page.'

As a side note, something interesting at the USC Daily Trojan in the '70s: sheet paper wasn't used for the manual typewriters. Instead, each machine was fed by a sheet-width paper roll made up of a carbon sandwiched between paper. No stopping to change paper sheets; you just kept typing, and whether your story was 1 foot long or 4 feet long you signed off with ##### or -30-30-30-30- and tore off your "copy," however long it came out.

[sakabatou]

20. I'm almost 28

So I don't think I can play =P

[Baitball Blogger]

21. We are really missing the "A" part to this "Q&A"

If you want to give it a go, try to respond to some of the questions.

[sakabatou]

22. OK

[sarge43]

25. In what radio series did Orson Welles voice act the main character? nt

[KamaAina]

27. Why don't you millennials vote more?

We could really use your help at the polls, especially on social issues.

[sakabatou]

103. I've voted since I could

[bobclark86]

109. Some of us do

Well, I do. But I'm a nerd or something.

Most of us don't vote because we're sick of the morons. Oh, and we're too busy paying down our college debt, most at jobs we didn't go to college to learn how to do.

[KamaAina]

111. Points taken

so if a (presumably Dem) candidate (Bernie? ) were to address the student debt issue, as well as the lack of job growth outside the service sector, you'd be interested?

[Jenoch]

29. Here's my question...

Do you really need to text your friend who is in the same room with you?

[blackcrowflies]

30. what did addresses look like before Zip codes?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

85. Bonus question:What does ZIP stand for?

[azurnoir]

118. bonus points for

what was a zone number?

[blackcrowflies]

31. Who was Miss Kitty?

[Art_from_Ark]

50. She was Hello Kitty's spinster aunt

[frogmarch]

32. Ever heard of Merthiolate and Mercurochrome?

In the late 1940s getting a cut or a skinned knee was doubly painful, thanks to them.

http://saintsreport.com/forums/f3/whatever-happened-mercurochrome-merthiolate-228571/

[blackcrowflies]

58. it's a miracle we didn't all die of mercury poisoning

[frogmarch]

59. I know! nt

[AwakeAtLast]

91. But it has the word "cure" in it, so it must be OK!

[Spider Jerusalem]

145. I remember my mother putting mercurochrome on my skinned knees in the early '80's (n/t)

[dixiegrrrrl]

160. My family always pronounced it as muh-thigh-o-lade.

and muh-.cure-a-comb.

We kids had no idea what it really did, but were reluctant to complain of scratches and cuts because we were afraid of the sting.
I always let the family dog lick the wound clean, seemed to work well....shhhhh...don't tell Mom

[Ryano42]

33. Get off my Lawn?

NO...GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

[frogmarch]

34. Ever XRay your feet at a shoe store?

http://gizmodo.com/the-insane-cancer-machines-that-used-to-live-in-shoe-st-789073694

Just for fun, in the early 1950s my older sister and I used to stop by the Florsheim shoe store on our way home from school and xray our feet.

[sakabatou]

76. Nope, those were made illegal long before I was born

[frogmarch]

86. The last one shut down in '80, I think.

Here's a video about them. Eek.

http://gizmodo.com/the-insane-cancer-machines-that-used-to-live-in-shoe-st-789073694

[Baitball Blogger]

112. My dad did.

He's 89 today! But not very mobile. I'm sure it's the x-ray exposure that did it. Though that wasn't the only time he got nuked. He was also one of those people who were part of a nuclear test. Can't remember if he was a soldier who had to stand at attention, or a guest in the stands. Probably the latter, unless it had to do with the Reserves.

[frogmarch]

114. Happy birthday to your dad!

It's wonderful he survived all that!

The manager of the shoe store where I lived died in his early 30s of cancer, leaving behind his poor wife and six little children. I've often wondered if his cancer was caused from being exposed to the X-rays from the "shoe fitter."

[Baitball Blogger]

115. Would not surprise me if the manager died from the exposure.

Thirty years of age, dying of cancer with one of those machines in the store? Yep. Sounds likely.

[Callmecrazy]

35. What were S&H Green Stamps?

And how did you get them? What could you do with them?

Anybody have an answer?

[In_The_Wind]

38. Hahaha

[blackcrowflies]

41. oldster trying to remember

Did we get them at gas stations? I remember my Mom had a drawer full of them.

Remember when you could buy things with U.S. postal stamps?

[Rhiannon12866]

68. I remember when they gave away glasses at gas stations.

My mother collected two sets.

[Downwinder]

96. They are collectors items now.

[blackcrowflies]

167. remember when jelly came in glass jars with pry off lids?

so you could use the jars as glasses. I miss those.

[Downwinder]

168. I remember the peanut butter in glasses.

I had sandwiches with a quarter inch of peanut butter so they could empty the glass. Never really cared for peanut butter since.

[Art_from_Ark]

97. We got them at grocery stores

and I think even Wal-Mart (when it was still mom-and-pop) was giving them out.

[Downwinder]

45. What do the S & H stand for?

[Callmecrazy]

49. Sperry & Hutchinson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26H_Green_Stamps

[Manifestor_of_Light]

81. We had pink and navy blue Big Bonus Stamps.

[annabanana]

148. The books would pile up in the junk drawer

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

36. Do they still have rock n roll music?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

84. Not in my opinion, they don't.

Trick question. Rock 'n' roll died in the mid to late 80s, in my opinion.

I tell people I'm so old I saw Styx when they were an opening act. Actually my concertgoing goes further back than that by several years.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. What did phone numbers look like before about 1968?

Did you ever play with trading cards?

What was a "phosphate," and where could you get one? What would you do with it?

Did you ever have a pair of wax lips?

What is this thing?

[Xipe Totec]

39. Did you know that in Nero's time the are code for Rome was XIV? nt

[Art_from_Ark]

98. Phone numbers would start out with two letters of the alphabet

that were the first two letters of a word, to help people remember the number. The ones I remember were MElrose (63), CRestwood (27) and PLeasant (75). All the TV shows should would use KLondike (55), because those were never real telephone numbers.

[bobclark86]

129. Most are easy...

1) Pennsylvania 6-5000, please...

2) No clue, Mac.

3) I still have a bunch of baseball cards around here someplace...

4) Yup.

5) Satan. Or, more specifically, how to waste shelf space and turns on the turntable (assuming no stack loader). That's why of more than 100 LPs, there's about 5 45s I own.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

130. A "phosphate" is a kind of soft drink.

http://www.prairiemoon.biz/Soda-Fountain-Phosphate_c_611.html You could get them at soda fountains. In my neighborhood (late '50s - early '60s) there was a drugstore where we'd get cherry or grape phosphates - I think they were a nickel. They were very good - fizzy and a bit tart.

Trading cards aren't the same as baseball cards. You could get packages of cards with different kinds of pictures on them and trade them with friends. It was a girls' game: http://sandycarlson.com/2013/12/10/1950s-trading-cards/

[Optical.Catalyst]

42. Have you ever turned the knob to UHF to watch channel 17 on the TV?

[A HERETIC I AM]

43. On Saturday morning, what did it signify when "Soul Train" came on? n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

153. The Soul Train whistle blew and you could see great dancing!

[A HERETIC I AM]

162. Well....

That too, but it meant the cartoons were done

[femmocrat]

44. Who was Princess Summerfall Wintersping?

What happened on your television at midnight?

[hopemountain]

141. snowpepper!

[femmocrat]

146. I don't know what that is! LOL

Now I have to go to the google!

[hopemountain]

147. you'd have to have just awakened

from a deep sleep after smoking sinsemilla in the 70's ~ opened my eyes, saw the tv screen and blurted out "snowpepper"

[Downwinder]

46. What is a BBS.

[Downwinder]

47. What does Buster Brown live in?

[Ptah]

48. Do you know what a splashdown was?

[sakabatou]

77. When a space capsule landed in the ocean?

[Art_from_Ark]

99. That is correct.

[Arugula Latte]

161. Now there's another meaning -- see 0:18 - 0:30

[NightWatcher]

51. Have you ever operated a (record) turntable? Bonus:Why would you use a penny on a turntable?

[annabanana]

149. You don't put it on the TURNTABLE.. You put it on

the arm, to keep an old record from skipping...

[denbot]

52. You have 5 seconds to identify this item

[IMG][/IMG]


KaBOOOOOM!!!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

64. Oh! I know!

That was for playing 45s on a turntable! Our record player had an attachment so we could play both 33s and 45s.

[denbot]

66. Ding ding ding..

Winner winner, chicken dinner!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

69. My cousins had those... ;)

As for chicken dinners, a perfect night for me was a Sunday when my mother made chicken and rice and The Wizard of Oz was on TV!

[Art_from_Ark]

94. We always had popcorn for the Wizard of Oz

And the movie was always in black-and-white.

[valerief]

53. Who performed house calls? nt

[HereSince1628]

54. The logic of computer programs still can have holes, but did you ever

submit to a computer a program that was recorded and stored as holes in a paper tape?

The pink tape on the right with code written in 8 hole positions per character, prepared on teletype was how I fed programs military into computers back in 1972. My MOS was 31J20B3 the 31j20 meant teletype repair...B3 meant I could fix data preparation sets that worked on the 8-level code.

[blackcrowflies]

60. Teletype

I remember carrying a Teletype home so I could work at home coding onto paper tape. Try carrying a Teletype when you're wearing high heels, you young wimps.

[DebJ]

107. I remember that stuff. In the early 80s I was the office manager for a major

US company, and had a staff of 12 doing data entry on a machine that used those paper tapes.
They were always slipping out of place, and I had to crawl under the machine, take it apart, and
put the tapes back in place several times a month.

[ret5hd]

127. CNC programmer...i remember it well...

A little later it came in mylar.

[valerief]

55. What did you do with clamdiggers? nt

[valerief]

56. What very important event occurred Jan. 22,1973? nt

[Art_from_Ark]

100. That's when I knew for sure

that I wasn't going to be drafted.

[valerief]

123. You're too old to answering these! I thought the younguns did the answering.

Anyway, it was when Roe vs. Wade was born. Birthed, not conceived.

[pablo_marmol]

104. I believe that my age group may have been the last to be compelled to register

for the draft. If not my year, the year after.

[valerief]

124. Uh, you're not under 25, then, so shame-shame for answering!

Anyway, Roe vs. Wade was born (birthed, not conceived).

[pablo_marmol]

134. So sorry -- you are completely correct.

I shall now sit in the corner of my bedroom wearing a conical hat for a full hour.

[valerief]

135. Wearing your adult diaper.

[valerief]

57. When was Freedom Summer? nt

[Skittles]

61. do kids with gadgets still ask ARE WE THERE YET?

[sakabatou]

102. Yes

[betsuni]

62. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[kwassa]

70. What do you mean, an African or a European Swallow?

[betsuni]

71. What ... I don't know that ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Brigid]

63. Who always ended his show with . . .

"And that's the way it is."

[cwydro]

67. Why do you take pictures of yourself to send to all your friends?

Who are doing the same thing?

Gah!

[ret5hd]

128. You forgot the word "naked"...

Just sayin'.

And I am also sayin' "Piss off" to all thos people who sent me non-naked Polaroids of themselves.

[mwdem]

72. Why are you still on my lawn? ????!!!!!

I embrace my old fartiness!

[A HERETIC I AM]

73. IT WOULD SEEM....that there is a serious dearth of young people answering these questions.

Why is that?

I know why.


Cause us old farts are boring as fuck.

[Skittles]

74. you want I should kick your boring as fuck old fart ass, A HERETIC I AM?

LEMME AT YOU!!!

[A HERETIC I AM]

95. Of all the people on this site who I want to have a dustup with......

YOU ARE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST SKITTLES, YOU WHIPPERSNAPPER!!



I was an old fart before being an old fart was cool. I was an old fart in my 20's!

[Baitball Blogger]

79. The other sad possibility is that the average DU Poster is over 25.

[orleans]

88. i'm in the ask a question category but i don't know many of the answers to these questions

when video tapes came out they arrived in two formats. name them.

which format had the player that was supposed to be the best?

aprox. how heavy were the first video players?

who is garfield goose?

[Tribalceltic]

106. You forgot the third (professional) type

Ampex

Betamax caused us to wait 2 years to actually by a VHS machine with a corded remote.

[MrScorpio]

89. Have you ever had to replace a vacuum tube on a TV or a Marconi Wireless?

Have you ever called a radio station to request your favorite song?

Have you ever ever waited by your radio in order press record whenever your favorite song came on?

Have you ever recorded a radio broadcast and replayed that tape in your car or in a Sony Walkman?

Have you ever had to adjust a TV antenna on the roof of your house, or double check to the if the antenna wire was properly connected to the back of your TV?

Do you know why Ed Sullivan was the biggest name in TV?

Do you know who was the most famous person to utter "Sock it to me" on national TV?

[bobclark86]

110. Well...

Yes, No (because I didn't want to), Yes, Yes, Yes, Who doesn't, and wasn't it Nixon?

[Arugula Latte]

90. I'm late 40s, so close enough. Okay, whippersnapppers, my question is this:

What should I do and not do to avoid being a pathetic and annoying older person?

[astral]

92. Yes!

. . . And once.

Called in to request a song. Got to believe in love by robin macnamara.
I made an entire song list hitting the record button, a cheap little reel to reel my daddy gave me. Remember how exciting it was to capture a favorite song? It wasn't even illegal. And taping coins to your turntable needle so it would play that warped record without skipping...

Gee I somehow realize how ancient I am. And now the childish thrill of having a phone full of good music some of which I haven't even heard yet. Hooodah Thunk?

[Sedona]

101. Why won't you vote?

[Lil Missy]

105. Explain the phrase, "pinch a nickel till the buffalo shits".

[DebJ]

108. Squeeze George until you make him cry. n/t

[Lil Missy]

113. No, that's not it.

[Little Star]

116. Have you ever eaten lunch seated at a counter in a drug store?

[Little Star]

117. If you are female did you ever use these?...

Did you sleep in them?

[Laffy Kat]

158. Hey, I still have some of those! nt

[MicaelS]

119. Have you ever smelled a freshly made memiograph copy?

Do you even know what a memiograph is? Without Googling it of course....

[blackcrowflies]

122. do they still have library paste?

do kids still eat it?

[ret5hd]

126. Did you, perchance, mean mimeograph?

[MicaelS]

131. Sorry, I must be lysdexic today. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

120. Do you know how to work a keypunch?

Do you even known what it is?

[blackcrowflies]

137. better yet

do you know how to remove a shredded card from a keypunch.

[Downwinder]

169. Do not spindle, fold, or mutilate.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

121. Complete these jingles or songs:

"I've got a gang.
You've got a gang.
Everybody's gotta have a gang.
But there's only just one gang for me,
Good old __________!"

"You'll wonder where the yellow went
When you_____"

"Yoohoo, it's me,
My name is________"

"I'm your school bell ding-dong-ding
Come with me to ________"

"I married Joan
What a girl_______"

[JeffHead]

125. Are you going to put us in really bad nursing homes....

in retaliation for raping and pillaging this planet for everything it is worth for 150+ years?

[LawDeeDah]

132. do you know where you are going to?

[kentauros]

133. Do you know how to cook?

[Kablooie]

136. What is special about a "Princess Phone"?

[CTyankee]

151. We have a brown one...

[ariesgem]

138. Here's a tricky one..

How do you rewind an 8 track???

[dorkulon]

139. Is Skrillex a brand of fire alarm?

[reflection]

165. Ha. My youngest is way into Skrillex.

She and I have bonded over several songs. She also likes old Queen, Rush and Yes, so her tastes are all over the map.

[Stardust]

140. Do you know what Babo is?

[JonLP24]

142. I turn 28 in about 40 days

1)I have no earthly idea

2)I have a horse saddle on my mind for some reason. I'm thinking "resting on his seat?"

[Skittles]

171. FAIL

you want I should kick your failing whippersnapper ass, JonLP24? LEMME AT YOU!!!

[meti57b]

144. Do you know what a "slide rule" is?..... and how to use it?

[pokerfan]

172. I'm over fifty and while never *had* to use one

I made my HS math/science teacher show me how to use one anyway.

Since then I've found some collectibles on Ebay.

[frogmarch]

177. My high school boyfriend wore

a slide rule in his pocket protector. He was awesome.

He has Alzheimer's now and is in a nursing home. I was going to go visit him last Sunday, but I couldn't stop crying so I didn't.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

154. Do young people learn to play musical instruments anymore?

Or do they just play video games like Guitar Hero?

[Baitball Blogger]

155. Have you ever seen them compete playing Guitar Hero?

They get dizzy. To the point of throwing up. Pretty dumb.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

159. No I haven't. Why don't they just learn to play a real instrument?

Like some of us older people did? Some of them are not electrically amplified either.

[mikeargo]

163. Name the TV show that originated this phrase:

"It has a nice beat, but you can't dance to it."

Hint: It was on Saturday morning, right after "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.

[Tom Ripley]

164. Why the prevalence of uptalk with so many of you young pups?

[lpbk2713]

166. What? Me worry?

[Downwinder]

170. !!!

[mackerel]

173. I think this is Q&A for 60 and over. LOL

[RushIsRot]

174. Just about everyone gets this one wrong.

Mimeograph had a wax master that you cut with typewriter keys or a stylus and the copies had an oily, inky odor.

The really great smelling one was the Ditto process spirit duplicator.

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176. Do you like older guys?