Category: Anything Goes

Congratulations PuppyLovePuppyLove, 75th member! *** 75 *** (by johnsapp for everyone)

There was some mention in the main forum about carbon papers, stencils, and razor blades to correct those.  I’m wondering about other things from the good ole days of typing.  Anyone had to type green stencils for mimeograph?  Anyone remembers the old copy machines?  Erasing pencils for carbons?  Blue dittos with the alcohol-based duplicators?  Having…

So what’s everyone do for a living? Just curious…I know we have a few students, database analysis whatever-ers, who knows what all! Anyways, I’m in the Army, unfortunately…but fortunatly I’m stationed in Germany! So I’m learning the language of course…just about to start venturing forth and attempt avoiding asking if they speak english at the…

Hey…am I missing something big here, or is there no way to edit your own messages? You should be able to…but I don’t know. Is it just an option John’s forgotten to turn on? Am I just going blind and it’s been there in front of me the whole time? Is it a hidden option?…

I guess I’ll have to do this (I didn’t see John’s question until later…see Reference Other Discussions – link). At the top of each board is Choose another message board and when you click on that you see all the message boards available.  Then choose View all message boards at once  this will let you see EVERY…

Debbi, is there some shortcut you are using to link to related discussions in your posts? It’s so helpful and relevant. (by johnsapp for everyone)  

Good point, Alex; I didn’t think about that. The reason for creating Anything Goes wasn’t just for idle chatter, but I think that since it is a particular kind of person who pursues shorthand in this day and age, there might be other similarities between group members as well, and that they might benefit from…

Anything goes in here? This’s my section! And I’m the first! (Assuming noone snuck anything in while I’m typing this) So I was just wondering…if telephone wires could talk…what kindof things do you think they’d say? I mean, they sit there all day, often carrying dozens (hundreds?) of conversations at any given time through their subwires…would they be…