What’s In A Name?

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh it has bounds, I think. Too bad it’s not useful.

Objection your honor! - Imagination and phantasy are the most useful and important features of an intelligent mind. Just ask your grandkids for their opinions about your stories!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Typewriters... sigh...
When we kids were little and wanted to play with the typewriter, we used the manual. My mom got an electric and we weren't allowed to play with it until we were 9 or 10.

I'm still on AOL...

I vividly remember having to write a presentation for school with a typewriter. It had to be submitted with a carbon copy for reasons i forgot by today, so i was typing what the other's were dictating me, only to discover after finishing the first page that the imbecile who loaded the paper into the typewriter had placed the carbon-paper upside down. Meaning the carbon-copy now was at the back of the original in mirror writing…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I completely understand what you’re saying. Some people just deserve it.

X2 !

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Do they really use carbon ...used to be a sheet of carbon(?) in between the papers

According to the Wikipedia, English and German articles the coating was dry ink, bound with wax. Nowadays they are using fancy micro-capsules that burst under pressure. (And release micro plastic into the environment.)

 

[electrycmonk]

Well, courtesy copy was one of the answers that i had to bow my head to.
The other answers ranged from "chef copy" (chef = boss/manager in German) over "copy copy" to "closed captioning" … Sometimes i would love to have close captioning on some of the e-mails coming from high up in the hierarchy…
I also asked what "bcc" means, some people did not even know that something like this is available! And the top answers from those who knew about it was: "bullsh!it copy".

Well soak me in silicone.

I prefer to call them as I was taught them decades ago:
Carbon copy
Blind carbon copy (the way you can send yourself or some *other* email addy a insurance copy that the receiver never knows it was sent to)

 

[electrycmonk]

As it has turns out, the number 13 (my fav #) in my username I can now say is for my favorite boy, Rusty the Roo! He is the first cockerel that I’ve either purchased or hatched that has been the perfect gentleman, to both human and chicken alike, and he was Number 13. No joke, that’s how many I went through to get him.

And to beat it all, (now I’m one of those weird ‘numbers’ people - I don’t think it’s weird, but I know others do) I broody hatched 18 chicks this year and would you like to guess how many of those were cockerels?

Yep, thirteen, 13. And I found another good cockerel in #13, Dooley!

13 is one of my favorite numbers....

I have a story about it...

But, that's for another day.

 

[sourland]

I do not, never have, and never will like '13'.

 

[Mimi13]

I do not, never have, and never will like '13'.

Ah, bah humbug! I know it’s generally perceived as a very unlucky number and it probably would be for me too, IF I hadn’t been born on that day.

 

[sourland]

I do like numbers. My grandson and I see the numbers, and sometimes they follow me.

 

[Sally PB]

only to discover after finishing the first page that the imbecile who loaded the paper into the typewriter had placed the carbon-paper upside down. Meaning the carbon-copy now was at the back of the original in mirror writing…

Oh wait, you're talking about me...

I do not, never have, and never will like '13'.

Sometime I wonder if the letter "B" feels threatened with dislike, since it looks similar to "13".

And yes, I thought that looooonnng before using numbers as letters was so common. That's how my brain works, I guess.