quote:When I was your age, we didn't have cable, we didn't have satellite, we had antennae on the roof. I just bought one of those. Guess what? It works.
You fools! Put the antannae in the attic not on the roof. It works just as well but doesn't get blown down in wind storms or crushed by heavy snow.
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Tante: I thought that might lead in that direction.
Rabbit: The house I grew up in had a flat roof and no attic. The house I now own has "cathedral ceilings" (which is pretty funny considering the slope of my roof is only 1 on 12). Neither had an attic to put an antenna in. And I've never had an antenna get blown down in a wind storm. I imagine it'd be hard to get the antenna rotator to work in an attic also, 'cause it would get caught on the christmas ornament box everytime you try to tune in a station from Schenectady.
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Does anyone remember the difference between mimeographs and dittos?
No, please tell me. Because what Tante described as mimeographs--the purple-ink sheets we deeply inhaled--we called dittos.
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Your TV stations broadcast over the airwaves? WOW!
In my day we didn't have airwaves. It was all particles. Photons were little billiard balls. If you went outside on a sunny day, you'd come back home with a concussion and a lumpy sunburn.
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Bah widespread! We had to spread things narrowly when I was a lad. Anything over a millimeter and you'd be in BIG trouble. And that was before we even had the metric system to know how wide a millimeter was!
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Mimeograph was the stencil, Ditto was the spirit fluid. You needed both to make a copy.
Then there was the Ozalid process (positive image), and the even older blueprints (negative image).
Tante: When I was a kid, there was no inside. Which was just fine with me, because houses are nothing but a modern convenience anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by Glenn Arnold: Mimeograph was the stencil, Ditto was the spirit fluid. You needed both to make a copy.
FWIW, this is not accurate. Mimeographs and dittos are two closely related, but distinct forms of printing. Ditto is not a fluid, it is the machine, or process or whatever, itself. Ditto sheets were thicker than mimeograph sheets, and worked by a reverse process, kind of like a carbon paper. Whatever you wrote or typed would be copied in reverse on the back side of the sheet. Then you would throw away the carbon and attach the ditto paper to the roller, which would make the impressions, re-reversed, or correct side out. Mimeographs used a much thinner paper, and pushed ink through the paper, as opposed to "reflecting" it off of the paper.
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