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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 27, 2022 15:39:36 GMT
what type of apparatus was used to smoke food items I don't think your dad's method is included here, but the flower pot one is definitely you. I see T as more of a file cabinet kinda guy: www.smokedbbqsource.com/diy-smoker-projects/
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Post by casimira on Aug 27, 2022 16:01:17 GMT
Too funny!!! Leave it to you Bixa to come up with that!!!
I'm sure T is going to jump right on that. Combing thrift stores for used metal filing cabinets. Yeah right...
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 25, 2022 14:43:08 GMT
My daughter has just had to fill the same form three times. She was complaining. I pointed out she only had to fill it out once and there were carbon copies. She had hadn't come across that before. She then had to put them in an envelope to post. It was self sealing. But she asked me why I didn't lick it like you see in movies. I had to explain about having to wet the glue. She thought it was just spit that held it together.
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Post by casimira on Dec 25, 2022 15:13:35 GMT
I remember when those self-sealed envelopes and peel off postage stamps became available. It was a godsend for us in NOLA. Both glued envelopes and glue backed stamps became stuck together here in just a matter of days. The solution was to immediately put them in an airtight plastic bag. It's the humidity here.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 25, 2022 15:16:55 GMT
I have always liked licking stamps so I am not a fan of the self-adhesive ones. But I am fine with the self-adhesive envelopes.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 25, 2022 15:18:50 GMT
I am suddenly wondering if 'cold case' investigators are able to get DNA off old stamps when they are checking things like death threat letters.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 25, 2022 17:12:43 GMT
Yes. It has been done.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2022 16:20:34 GMT
I passed a shop today with its fax number still indicated on its sign.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 29, 2022 16:47:19 GMT
I thought the fax the most amazing invention ever.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2022 17:24:10 GMT
Everybody did back then. We all wanted one. Actually, my first printer also had a fax function but I don't recall ever using it.
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Post by questa on Jan 1, 2023 11:15:57 GMT
I was in a chemist shop with a 19 y o friend...one who could make computers sit up and beg. My prescription wasn't there so I asked if a copy could be faxed through with the signature of Doctor. My friend had never even heard of a fax so I gave him the guided tour...And sang a little song to myself!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 3, 2023 7:32:08 GMT
Remember when data processing with keypunch cards seemed like the wave of the future? I remember that my high school had classrooms full of students (always girls) learning to do this important task.
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Post by bjd on Feb 3, 2023 7:42:39 GMT
One of my first jobs, before I went to university, was working in the EDP (Electronic Data Processing) department of a company. There were a couple of guys writing programs, a few women typing on those cards, then the data was printed out on huge sheets of paper by a very big computer. My job was checking that the information was correct and if it wasn't, I had to go and have a new card printed. After a while, I did it myself.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 11, 2023 12:27:55 GMT
I remember when ink blotters were a part of every desk set, but I think that they had pretty much stopped being used even before I was born. Perhaps some of them served as temporary paperweights.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2023 18:51:01 GMT
Feeling old?
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Post by mossie on Feb 17, 2023 19:44:41 GMT
I can remember that in one of the offices I worked in, in the 'good old days', had a ink pad stamp for all incoming mail by which the date and the firms details were stamped on. New office girls were liable to have this applied to their bottoms. Ah! ....those were the days!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 17, 2023 20:20:10 GMT
My office also had an incoming stamp for all arriving mail. That made it all the more shocking when there was a corruption scandal in the newspaper one day with a photo of the incriminated invoice. You could clearly see our office stamp on it.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 21, 2023 2:04:50 GMT
My first job after graduating from college was at a government office for the summer. Each morning there were two or three of us opening mail from the post office and couriers. All of the envelopes had to be date stamped, saved and attached to the correspondence that was also date stamped, then all had to be distributed to the different departments. At the end of the day, we were back in the mailroom writing out courier slips and using the Pitney Bowes postage meter for items to be mailed. I enjoyed these parts of my day because everything had to be neat and organized.
We have had a photocopier/scanner at home for quite a few years. The scanner has actually been helpful.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 21, 2023 7:26:30 GMT
Mich, that job is so familiar!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2023 7:47:05 GMT
We knew we had been employed there too long when we ran out of the correct years on the stamp and had to buy a new one.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 26, 2023 13:39:27 GMT
I have sent two telegrams in my life. Do they still existe?
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Post by Kimby on Oct 26, 2023 15:50:27 GMT
When we traveled to Myanmar/Burma in 1993, our arrangements with the tour company were done by TELEX. Does THAT even exist anymore?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 26, 2023 17:23:26 GMT
Telexes still existed when I was working, because airlines had their own secure system. But even then (in the last 10 years of work), most telexes were typed on a computer, so it was rather strange that they needed to be printed out on a telex printer. I still remember the telex address of my office: PARAASV. And then everybody was moving on to faxes! Thank god they did not last long. You would not believe the number of times I was requested to send 20 or more pages, one by one.
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Post by htmb on Oct 27, 2023 0:22:22 GMT
Speaking of faxes, because I’ll be traveling during our spring elections, my local supervisor will be emailing me (and all others who have signed up) my ballot. I must then print a copy, fill it out, sign the attached cover sheet, then FAX my ballot to a special number. The official was almost apologizing while explained the process. Apparently, some states allow completed ballots to be scanned and emailed, but not Florida.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 27, 2023 1:28:36 GMT
Florida is not the only one with a baroque system. Just be glad you weren't asked to find a Cistercian monk to pen and illustrate it before sending on the back of a snow white ass.
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Post by htmb on Oct 27, 2023 2:50:10 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 6, 2023 8:14:43 GMT
I actually did forget this, looking at old home movies from 1970. My French grandfather wore a suit and tie on ALL occasions, even to just walk around in the back garden.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 6, 2023 9:46:13 GMT
Although I was under 6 I clearly remember my neighbour, Mr Potter, would always go out in the garden wearing a waistcoat and tie and a bowler hat.
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Post by whatagain on Nov 6, 2023 12:57:27 GMT
I never saw my father or FIL wearing a T shirt. My FIL was always wearing a shirt buttoned up. He never wore jeans either. And had a hat.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 6, 2023 14:59:53 GMT
I actually did forget this, looking at old home movies from 1970. My French grandfather wore a suit and tie on ALL occasions, even to just walk around in the back garden. Suits are all but dead where I am. Nobody wears them except a few businesspeople dressing for aspirational success. Actual successful people generally don't any more, opting for more comfort and practicality. I really only see them today in large cities with skyscrapers where they don't look ridiculous. I'm so old, I remember when men would wear suits for airplane or train travel, or even family car trips. What the hell were those poor souls thinking? Gave away my last suit/tie like a decade ago; invite me to a suit & tie occasion and you'll never see me. And what's with non-Western people wearing suits to look important? We invented them and even we hate them.
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