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My kid is laughing saying we were “huffing mimeograph ink”!

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Mitten, Duck? They don’t fit. Am I being stupid?

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@Doc, so there are three of us!

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Loved that shit, ditto machines rule!

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I sniffed my screen. Nada. Oh yea, your fired.

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I learned something tonight.

http://atomictoasters.com/2012/03/what-ever-became-of-mimeograph-machines/

http://atomictoasters.com/2012/03/what-ever-became-of-ditto-machines/

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I drew the line at glue eating though.

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LOL…I was gonna say that the papers were always chilled.

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Was this one of those ”which of these things doesn’t belong” worksheets? Mitten and Duck do not belong!

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I loved the smell of those things.

Thanks for the link, Mr Pinko.

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@Debbie–

The duck fits if it’s considered “fowl”.

Can’t figure out the mitten though, so it IS probably “which doesn’t belong”. (Of course, it could be “fingerless glove”, but that’s really reaching.)

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And the dang pages wouldn’t stack neatly at first, because they were still damp with the ink. So they smelled great but were untidy. Never could decide whether I was happy or frustrated.

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Marry and Debbie were quite obviously teachers pets. Remember me? I was always on a time out in the corner. LOL

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I think I remember these tests from K or first grade. That, and sniffing the paste on those little plastic paddle thingys.

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Hahaha – yes that stuff smelled fantastic. Every once in awhile, for no particular reason, I think about how the paper smelled when it came off the mimeograph machine. Figured it was just ME.

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I just had a flashback of the smell, and Mrs. Burris’ bingo wings flapping as she turned the crank.

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One of those “I remember when” moments. Brings back memories of your fifth grade teacher making “copies” of today’s assignment to take home with you.

It also brings back memories of Bluto and the Delta House “prepping” for the final exam.

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@Debbie, LOL! I was just telling my kid about the paste with the lids that had the little scooper stick! Yum!

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That’s right, @Brad, you were in the corner sniffing the pages.

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@Bad Brad, were you the one my mom warned me about?

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Mary, Sorry for dipping your hair in the ink that time. I don’t know what came over me.

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CC, I always had the moms fooled too. Kinda of a Hybred Cross between Eddie Haskell, Donnie Osmond, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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I had that effect on all the naughty little boys, @Brad. Got used to it after a while.

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Oh I bet you still do.

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Sure, I’m always washing ink out of my hair these days (I need the eye-rolling smiley face here).

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You girls never did figure out why we used to do that did ya.

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‘have the’….dern it!

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Whats starts (or doesn’t) with the letter F.

@Brad
O.K. why did little boys dip pig tails in the oil well?

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WTF here hasn’t built a model airplane?

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@MaryfromMarin

Had to pull out my magnifier. The mittens has a flower design.

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@theJadedBarrel–

How clever of you! It’s a “flowered (fingerless) glove” (LOL).

Can you make out anything in the fourth row? The first thing is a “fire truck” but I can’t make out the others (not easy to stand on my head in front of the monitor).

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And the duck could be a “feathered friend”.

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Next to the fire truck is a campfire. I can’t make out the other two.

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Maybe the third one is some lady stirring up fondue.

It’s late.

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Cowgirl, I bet there are more of here that rfemember these than you might think.

Isn’t the thing between the fan and the football a mitten? If they wanted a flower, why not just put a flower?

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*remember

(So I sniffed too much mimeo ink as a kid…)

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The fire truck & camp fire was subliminal message for the movie Fahrenheit 451.

Or

The one beside the camp fire looks like a clowns with a star.

So.. Firetruck shoots water {unwashed masses), campfire (burn something), clowns that favor stars. Hmm.. it just depends on that last symbol.

(Finger paint on glue past has some side effects.)

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Ah, the smell of the bus and dittos in the morning. That’s a happy childhood memory.

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Aah yes, fresh mimeographed paper and a bottle of white glue with a brush attached to the lid. I remember them like it was yesterday.
Funny how scent can trigger memories so quickly and accurately.

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I remember making dittos in the office in my Church. Helped out the secretary now and then and loved to make copies. She would save that for me to do. I’m glad I’m not the only one!

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For you whippersnappers:

http://www.loti.com/then_now/Gym_Uniforms_of_the_50s_and_60s.htm

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1095240/index.htm

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Don’t feel bad about being of a “certain age”, CC. On my bookshelf right here I still have some old test papers from the sixties dittoed in purple ink. I forgot why I’m saving them. Worse yet, down in the basement I actually have a mechanical (Olympic) portable typewriter – the kind with a setting for cutting mimeograph stencils. I’m sure it will be valuable on eBay someday (not)…

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@Boobie – I’m about a decade behind you but I . remember wearing one of those one-piece gym suits, starting in fifth grade. I think they were phased out in high school. I thought the design was quite wonderful and it was so comfortable. I remember back then thinking about how it made us conscious of being girls.

And, ahhh, mimeogragh machines. Cold January mornings, moving up to a new SRA book, four square at recess, home made food in the cafeteria, happy kids who knew their place in the community. Why do progtards want their kids to grow up too fast?

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Rant away, Boobie the Rocket Dog. This brought to mind a lot of memories, especially the beautiful handwriting on my report cards. That we were entrusted to bring home in the same manilla envelope that use through the year.

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AbigailAdams, I didn’t walk uphill both ways to school, but we didn’t even have a cafeteria. The milk truck delivered cartons every day for lunch that cost a nickle. And no, I am not that ancient.

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John Cooper, there’s a Royal model rattling somewhere in the attic. The think probably takes five pounds of finger pressure to get the key to strike.

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great reading all of these posts.
still remember chalkboard duty and trying to clean all the erasers outside without getting residue on my clothes.

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Dude, you’re dating yourself again.

It obviously smelled better than whatever Mooch is sniffing in that other thread.

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I still remember walking by the office at West Side Elementary and seeing teachers churning the mimeograph machine.

Hmm, wonder how many “cumulative trauma disorder” cases were caused by ditto duty nationwide back in the low-tech “dark ages”…?

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Love all these memories. Boobie, I’m just a few years behind you so the images are very vivid. Had those atrocious gym suits — in the sickest shade of green you could imagine. And remember the teacher had one of those chalk holding devices so she could draw multiple lines on the board with one swipe?

I went to grandparents day at my granddaughter’s school. I haven’t been in a classroom in decades and was stunned by the technology. They don’t have a black or greenboard. It is a giant touch sensitive computer screen. I wanted to stay after and play with the gadgets.

But they still say the pledge — one chosen child leading over the P.A. every morning. I hope we don’t lose that precious relic.

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Dear Abby (RIP, sorry),

Re: “one-piece gym suits, … I thought the design was quite wonderful and it was so comfortable. I remember back then thinking about how it made us conscious of being girls.”
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Next chapter: once conscious of that fact, did “comfort” take a back seat to … showing it off?

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Anyone figure out yet what synonym for “MITTEN” starts with an F?

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Anyone figure out yet what synonym for “MITTEN” starts with an F?

Boobie, I tried to groogle it and still got nuthin’

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