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RIP: Typewriter!

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    #32
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    goose2005 wrote: »
    teetertotter?

    Definition? :pac:


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    #33
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    keith16 wrote: »
    Definition? :pac:

    American word for a see-saw


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    #34
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Many authors still use them. I suppose if you began your writing career using one you'd like to continue producing your work in the same way, a superstition maybe?


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    #35
    mockingjay
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭mockingjay


    Typewriting is still a subject on the Junior Cert! The longest word you can type with your right hand on a qwerty keyboard is 'lollipop'! Any typewriting teachers here?


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    #36
    OneArt
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Many authors still use them. I suppose if you began your writing career using one you'd like to continue producing your work in the same way, a superstition maybe?

    Can't afford a computer.


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    BUBBLE WRAP
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    I will just type this up on my invisible typewriter... :pac:


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    #38
    oppenheimer1
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    keith16 wrote: »
    Did you know, that the longest word you can get using the top row of a standard QWERTY keyboard is typewriter?

    Wiki says rupturewort is the longest, with 11 characters and a medical term has 12, uropyoureter.


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    #39
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    My Dad had one, still in the home place, think it's jammed now and doesn't work. It's an Imperial one probably bought in the late 50's, beautiful machine and a ton weight, not like the word processor things of the 70's.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #40
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I was so jealous of my friend who had an electronic typewriter! :pac:


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    #41
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    RIP :(

    My heart goes out to all those involved. So sad, thoughts and prays and kisses and puppy dogs horse pacific.


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    #42
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    kowloon wrote: »
    They already have, some of the hipster types are buying them.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9398975/Why-a-typewriter-is-the-ultimate-hipster-accessory.html

    That news merits this response


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    #43
    Typewriter
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    I ain't dead yet!


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    #44
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,718 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    mockingjay wrote: »
    Typewriting is still a subject on the Junior Cert! The longest word you can type with your right hand on a qwerty keyboard is 'lollipop'! Any typewriting teachers here?
    ASDF. JKL;

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    #45
    marwelie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Saw a documentary on one of the news channels recently about an artist who produces portraits of famous faces using typewriters. Guess she'll be looking for a new medium now.....


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    #46
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    When I was in Africa decades ago there was a guy called Typewriter Zulu.
    He is totally fecked. Afaik Zulus are now Ngonis.


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