Shoot - in our typing class we had ONE electric typewriter that we had to take turns using - the rest of the time we were using manuals. I kind of still miss all the banging :)
ELECTRIC typewriters? What kind of rich academy was that? We had the manual version. And the pencil-shaped erasers with a little brush on the end. Or, if you were lucky enough to find it, the correction tape slivers that came in a plastic box.
For the same reason I was compelled to take not only typing but shorthand. Typing helped my career, shorthand was forgotten soon after high school. So it goes.
Particularly loved the last three.
ReplyDeleteA Polish farmer goes to the eye doctor in Grand Forks, ND.
ReplyDelete"Can you read the bottom line on the chart?". The letters are C Z Y L E Z I W K I
The farmer says, "Read it? I know the damned guy, live just west of Grafton, first name is Fred."
Shoot - in our typing class we had ONE electric typewriter that we had to take turns using - the rest of the time we were using manuals. I kind of still miss all the banging :)
ReplyDeleteGood stuff again. 37 words a minute...12 if you count errors.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I remember typing class very well, and it's come back to haunt me today. Remember the "home keys"?...a s d f j k l ;
ReplyDeleteTry typing that on the tiny little keyboard that comes on an iPhone!
I like the first one! So true!
ReplyDeleteI withdraw my former comment. I like 'em all!
ReplyDeleteELECTRIC typewriters? What kind of rich academy was that? We had the manual version. And the pencil-shaped erasers with a little brush on the end. Or, if you were lucky enough to find it, the correction tape slivers that came in a plastic box.
ReplyDeleteIn the Summer school typing class I was the only male. My father the newspaper editor thought it would help my career. The jury is still out
ReplyDeleteFor the same reason I was compelled to take not only typing but shorthand. Typing helped my career, shorthand was forgotten soon after high school. So it goes.
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