Pickles by Brian Crane for October 21, 2012

Can you even buy carbon paper anymore?

Ditto…

does anyone remember the smell of the memeograph, that purple looking ink that was the test papers of the past.

2 to be exact.

Aaaah, the smell of mimeo was almost as good as the smell of leaded gas.

Has he roared at you yet, Opal?

When you have woke him from an afternoon nap.

LOL xxx

one question what is a memeograph? I have never heared of it.

All my friends are in ’ The Other Place ’…

The mention of mimeo ink/copies brings back fond memories – and that delicious scent… I could type better on a typewriter before computers, too. Maybe it had something to do with the need to type accurately, because it was not easy to correct a mistake.

Will never forget the purple ink stains on my hands…..

Produced many a sci-fi fanzine on mimeos in my youth!

Loved that “alcohol?” odor and purple color.

Jeannie, yes I do remember the smell as I had to do many of them in my job. Plus I have to add the onion skin paper that was used with the carbon paper in legal offices for copy. Oh and even worse of a dinosaur than Earl…my first job was on a manual typewriter!

I heard of a first-grader who would always scribble through the worksheets the teacher handed out. Both his mother and the teacher were puzzled because the child was bright and generally well-behaved. When asked, the child replied, “It’s those damn purprle monsters!”

I loved the smell of mimeographed paper. And when you typed the stencil, the ribbon had to be disconnected in the typewriter. If a mistake was made, there was a special rubber-type ink that was painted on the stencil. You waited until it dried and you retyped the word.

I wright security reports in duplicate with Carbon paper original for our records the copy for the client

I remember ditto paper.