Hilarious video, for those old enough to appreciate it.

[kyrathaba]

Facebook vid

[Deozaan]

That old CRT monitor would be way too heavy to do that to before realizing your mistake.

[nudone]

That old CRT monitor would be way too heavy to do that to before realizing your mistake.

-Deozaan (September 20, 2010, 09:38 PM)

it says "A WOMAN GOES BACK TO WORK AFTER THIRTY YEARS.."

looks like that thirty years was spent doing a lot of weight-lifting. 

[ljbirns]

face lifting too

[nite_monkey]

  You older people and your weird ways... I guess you have to be older than 19 to understand what is going on in this video. To me, it makes no sense...

[ljbirns]

Typewriters ?  Carbon paper ?  Mimeograph ? Rotary phones ?  A Secretary who could take shorthand ?
 An Answering service ? Orange CRT monitors ? Elevator operators ?
Remember any of these ?

[Target]

You older people and your weird ways... I guess you have to be older than 19 to understand what is going on in this video. To me, it makes no sense...

-nite_monkey (September 22, 2010, 04:32 PM)

you young people and your wierd ways - facebook? we have actual friends and literal social networks....

[lanux128]

Typewriters ?  Carbon paper ?  Mimeograph ? Rotary phones ?  A Secretary who could take shorthand ?
 An Answering service ? Orange CRT monitors ? Elevator operators ?
Remember any of these ?

-ljbirns (September 22, 2010, 04:55 PM)

have used or run into all of the above. lol, this thread makes me feel old..

btw, mimeograph is known as cyclostyle here. i remember my dad working on it at his shop.

[zridling]

There's something to be said for old tech: if done right, it can last centuries. Title/deed documents, contracts, constitutions, etc. are best put to something more permanent than the latest document file format! And a good typewriter might last you decades rather than the latest upgrade cycle for say, Apple's gadgets.

[Deozaan]

face lifting too

-ljbirns (September 22, 2010, 08:04 AM)

That's what I was thinking!

[Renegade]

There's something to be said for old tech: if done right, it can last centuries. Title/deed documents, contracts, constitutions, etc. are best put to something more permanent than the latest document file format! And a good typewriter might last you decades rather than the latest upgrade cycle for say, Apple's gadgets.

-zridling (September 22, 2010, 09:33 PM)

Hooray for clay tablets and the stylus~! =p

(Sorry -- couldn't resist that!)

[Carol Haynes]

Hooray for clay tablets and the stylus~! =p

-Renegade (September 23, 2010, 07:10 PM)

Well they have survived thousands of years buried in middle eastern deserts - how long will an iPad last in comparison?

[IainB]

I can't see the video on that link, but if it is the "Blond typist goes back to work after many years" one that I sent to my blond daughter a while back, she thought it was very sexist and didn't take kindly to it at all.
 

[app103]

I can't see the video on that link, but if it is the "Blond typist goes back to work after many years" one that I sent to my blond daughter a while back, she thought it was very sexist and didn't take kindly to it at all.
 

-IainB (September 23, 2010, 11:05 PM)

I am a blonde and fully appreciated it and played it over and over and laughed till it hurt...and then sent it to everyone I know that would appreciate it. 

[IainB]

@app103: Yes, I thought it was very funny too, and not in bad taste.

[ljbirns]

"Blond typist goes back to work after many years" one that I sent to my blond daughter a while back, she thought it was very sexist and didn't take kindly to it at all.

We ( men ) were all sexist ( and the woman expected it ) until they started to call ' Secretaries ' Administrative Assistants "

[IainB]

@ljbirns: Yes, you may well be right.
The mindlessness of modern-day PC ("Political Correctness") is explored quite well in The Retreat From Reason

[daddydave]

for those old enough to appreciate it.

Another way to say that is "old enough to know a meaning for carriage return which isn't byte oriented."