[Sca-cooks] Recent Test
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 11 09:30:53 PST 2004
You're lucky, we had to type through the snow, uphill both ways... I
think we had Royals too, but even in the '70's we still had to learn on
manual. Mom's selectric with a correction key seemed like a brilliant
innovation! Even today I tend to pound a keyboard maybe harder than
necessary, anymore.
Oh, you guys think you're so old? My college roommate translated
Akkadian and did typesetting in cuneiform. I am totally NOT joking, she
was a doctoral candidate in Ancient Near Eastern Languages. She's the
one whom I asked what was the best answer to the Monty Python & The Holy
Grail question: What is the capitol of Assyria? She thought about it
and said that the capitol changed a couple times but the best answer for
the longest time was Nineveh. There, now you too can cross the Bridge
of Death safely [as long as you are certain of your favorite colour].
Selene
Regina wrote:
>You had a Royal! Wow! My typing classes used Underwood's with dates of
>1903 stamped into the frames! These people who boast of their upscale,
>state of the art childhood classrooms <grin!>
>
>Regina Romsey
>
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