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Sillycalimomma
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 9:21 pm
Wow that is Celine! I just saw the footage on tv-her getting her star! I can't believe it! It certainly didn't look like her!Sheesh....
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Jeep
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:35 am
I am so cold, all I can say this morning is....Burrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Essence
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:04 am
Burrrrrrrrrr right back atcha Jeep. That wind went through me this morning like I was a thin piece of cloth. You would never have known I had layers of clothing on.
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Jeep
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:08 am
This is over a 60 degree drop for us from this weekend. Bitter. And Essence, I loved your old age points you posted yesterday. I can relate to all of them! LOL
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Janfts
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:39 am
Essense-very cute, and i can relate to it also. Wasn't it Bette Davis who said, "growing old isn't for sissies" ?
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Ladytex
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:39 am
Mornin'... it's a few degrees warmer outside today than yesterday, not many degrees but a few. The good thing is that I will only be out there long enough for me to get where I'm going.
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Halfunit
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:51 am
Local Forecast for Dover, OH 14°F Feels Like 0°F On another note, how did people at work kill time before computers and internet access?
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Zules
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:16 am
As I dodge Twinkie's boot, I report that it is a chilly 71 here today. **tee hee**
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Resortgirl
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:20 am
It's -8 here in sunny Minnesota, feels like -25! I think that we are supposed to have a heat wave this weekend with highs in the teens!! yippee!!
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Egbok
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:25 am
Hi Halfie, since I'm a geezer type of person now, I can answer that question of yesteryear... They picked up a plain piece of typing bond paper and held it in their left hand. They insert such paper into the typewriter roller carriage and at the same time, with their right hand, they turn the roller so the piece of typing paper will insert smoothly. As they continue turning the roller and watching with fascination as the paper feeds down and then comes up over the roller, they then lift the paper holder bar thingy and smooth the top of the paper under the bar thingy which holds the paper in place. Then they push the typewriter carriage to the far left using their left hand, then place their hands on the keyboard (pretty much like you now do with posting with your computer keyboard). Then they type this line: I am bored today. Then they will use their right hand to pull the carriage arm toward them so that the paper will move up to the next blank line, especially if your using single space. Now if you use double space, you will have a blank line between your sentence. They release the carriage arm and retype the sentence so it appears this way: I am bored today. I am bored today. (that's single spaced...) I am bored today. I am bored today. (that's double spaced...) I am bored today. I am bored today. I am bored today. I am bored today. Now mind you, they didn't have the cut & paste ability way back then, so they actually had to sit at their desks and retype this sentence over and over and over again. So that's how people at work killed time before computers and internet access. Hope your day goes by fast! xoxo, Eggie
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Jeep
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:51 am
Oh Eggie! You forgot about the 3 carbon copies under the original page. And when you made a mistake, you had to correct it 4 times with a hand held ink eraser. I never had time to kill when I had to work with all that crap! LOL
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Mak1
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:26 am
It's a sunny 20 degrees in Maine, with the wind picking up. We'll have dangerous wind chills tonight. Eggie, your post made me laugh, remembering my early secretarial days. We learned on manual typewriters in high school, then moved up to the exciting electrics. You could return the carriage with a keystroke, yay! Wouldn't it be torturous to go back to that.
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Halfunit
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:26 am
Thanks Eggeezer! You know, as I sit at my desk at work, I look off to my left and see these two pieces of machinery that you describe, sitting, unplugged and lonely..... ...yes, we occasionally have to use those prehistoric machines for tax forms....<sigh> HB2YE !!! 
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Twinkie
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:36 am
Somebody please ship me back to Orlando. I'm freezing up here. The sun is shining but its 15 degrees and the wind is blowing at about 35 MPH. Snow is blowing everywhere and my windows are creaking. I want to go home. I don't think this will ever be home. Especially now.
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Resortgirl
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:40 am
Twinkie, somehow you eventually get used to it. I've lived in Minnesota all but 3 years of my life... the other three were in Texas. Soon you'll be putting on shorts and sandals the first 50 degree day in spring!! Hang in there!!!
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Resortgirl
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:42 am
I should add, the first winter we lived "UP NORTH" there were 3 days of -56 degree weather without the windchill factor. I learned that at -52 propane freezes. We had no heat, and had to boil water on the stove, pour it over the tank to unfreeze the propane so the furnace could run for 10 minutes and then keep repeating the process.... ARG!! I was ready to move that year, believe me!!
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Hippyt
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 10:11 am
<throwing some blankets over poor Twinks>
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Juju2bigdog
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:31 am
Hey Eggie, look at this:
Quote:You know, as I sit at my desk at work, I look off to my left and see these two pieces of machinery that you describe, sitting, unplugged and lonely.....
Unplugged. Hahahahahaha!!! Like typewriters normally have plugs. Hahahaha!!!
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Essence
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:37 am
SIGH... My supervisor just called another one his nap fests, er... meetings. I hate when he does this right after lunch.
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Marysafan
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 12:46 pm
I was just wondering if anyone happened to catch the story that I saw on Good Morning America yesterday....where the little boy crawled up into one of those vending machines where you try to get a stuff animal using a grasping device. He sure looked odd sitting inside that glass box. Dad was sure suprised...mom (who wasn't there was mortified when she found out). It was at the Piggly Wiggly Store in Cheboygen, WI and no one at the store had a key so they had to call the fire department who ended up calling a locksmith. Amazing how he could fit through the "slot" ...but he did! Thank goodness he had enough oxygen! Dad was the phone at the time...just goes to show, you can't take your eyes of them for a minute!
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Lkunkel
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:05 pm
Mary: Great story. I too want to know how a 7YO fit through an 8x11" opening. In fairness, a 7YO should know better; at that age I was expected to stand/sit and wait if my parents were occupied. Hence the reason I learned to carry a book with me.
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Hippyt
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:06 pm
OMG,that's funny and scary at the same time! I could just see one of my kids doing that.
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Halfunit
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:08 pm
...it would probably take me $48.75 in quarters just to get him out...
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Egbok
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:39 pm
....yeah Half, just make sure the machine is plugged in so the grabbing device will work... (thanks for the HB2me!!)
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Sillycalimomma
| Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:47 pm
Daughter started school on Monday again. I can't wait to get back into school myself. I have a full load coming up this semester-18 units, but hopefully if all goes well I will at least have my AA degree finally afterward! I have already done all of the housework that needed to be done....I am so darn bored!I need to go to the Library threads and pick a new book out to read!
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