Sherry wrote:

Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know
we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for
one) and so forth.

Before desktop publishing was ever heard of, I was a "typesetter." There's a
word you don't hear anymore.
More recently I managed the art department at a metro newspaper and did ad
design / layout, page layout, etc. Then my health just didn't allow me to work
anymore.
Now I think I'm what you call a recluse.

Sherry

Sherry, I did typesetting for a couple of years. I worked for a
newspaper and as we typed our words came out on a sort of tape as a
series of dots. You had to learn the code. The tapes were then fed
into a typesetting machine. It was a step forward from the linotype
setters. You had to be a very fast typist. Interesting.

Bev
--
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.

in article , Marina at
wrote on 1/16/05 11:03AM:

Debbie Wilson wrote:

Marina wrote:


It does sound fun. One of my father's colleagues tried to talk me into
becoming a scientific illustrator way back when I was twenty-something
and didn't know what to become when I grew up (still don't know, but
that's another story).


What stopped you? Do you still do any artwork? Would love to see it if
you do!

Just think, you could have been an eminent palaeoartist, with your
family connections! :-)

I don't know; I didn't have any formal artistic education and just
didn't know how to go about it, I guess. It's a good thing I didn't,
because with the current state of my hands, I don't think that's
something I would be able to do any more. That's also why I don't do any
drawing or painting any more. Sometimes I miss it a lot.

You know, you might try potting. And it might even be GOOD for your hands. I
worry about hands. I don't get to play guitar as much as I would like but I
would sure miss it.

jmcquown wrote:

It's like clear cinnamon schnapps with flakes of 18 karat gold in it. Very
potent stuff.

Goodness!! :-)

Deb.

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http://www.scientific-art.com

"He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would;
He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:50:35 +1300, Bev wrote:

Sherry wrote:

Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know
we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for
one) and so forth.

Before desktop publishing was ever heard of, I was a "typesetter." There's a
word you don't hear anymore.
More recently I managed the art department at a metro newspaper and did ad
design / layout, page layout, etc. Then my health just didn't allow me to work
anymore.
Now I think I'm what you call a recluse.

Sherry

Sherry, I did typesetting for a couple of years. I worked for a
newspaper and as we typed our words came out on a sort of tape as a
series of dots. You had to learn the code. The tapes were then fed
into a typesetting machine. It was a step forward from the linotype
setters. You had to be a very fast typist. Interesting.

If you belonged to the union you were a typographer. :)

My late uncle set hot metal type for years. He retired just as the
newspaper was getting the Photon machines.

William Hamblen wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:50:35 +1300, Bev wrote:

Sherry wrote:

Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know
we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for
one) and so forth.

Before desktop publishing was ever heard of, I was a "typesetter." There's a
word you don't hear anymore.
More recently I managed the art department at a metro newspaper and did ad
design / layout, page layout, etc. Then my health just didn't allow me to work
anymore.
Now I think I'm what you call a recluse.

Sherry

Sherry, I did typesetting for a couple of years. I worked for a
newspaper and as we typed our words came out on a sort of tape as a
series of dots. You had to learn the code. The tapes were then fed
into a typesetting machine. It was a step forward from the linotype
setters. You had to be a very fast typist. Interesting.

If you belonged to the union you were a typographer. :)

My late uncle set hot metal type for years. He retired just as the
newspaper was getting the Photon machines.

I did belong to the union. I can remember that women were paid the
same as men, not common in those days. Another memory was telling DH I
had to be at work early. "Why?", he asked. "We are going to go on
strike," I said, rofl. It was a militant union. I also remember one of
the subs touching a linotype machine. We all downed tools in a second
and the paper was late.

Bev
--
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.

"Ginger-lyn Summer" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:58:54 +1100, "Yowie"
wrote:


SHHHHH! Aussie wine & tim tams are an Aussie secret. Be careful unless
you
want *everyone* to get the idea and then the price will sky rocket and
the
yumminess decrease as all the best stuff becomes marked for export.

:-)

Yowie


Okay, I gotta ask.

What is a tim tam???

TimTams are a chocoholic's idea of paradise. Take two chocolate biscuits
(cookies). Slap some chocolate cream in between them. Cover the lot with a
generous amount of chocolate.

TimTam Slam: Nibble off one set of hte diagonally opposite corners. Insert
one corner into Kahlua, Tia Maria, Bailey's or other sweet liquer that would
go with chocolate. Suck the other corner of the timtam as hard as you can.
Once you can taste the liquer, the timtamslam is ready to eat :-)

Overseas Aussies pine for vegemite, timtams, cherry ripes, violet crumbles,
twisties and real beer :-)

Yowie

Ginger-lyn Summer wrote:
On 15 Jan 2005 16:30:49 GMT, itty (Sherry ) wrote:

Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I
know
we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what
passes for one) and so forth.

Before desktop publishing was ever heard of, I was a "typesetter."
There's a word you don't hear anymore.
More recently I managed the art department at a metro newspaper and
did ad design / layout, page layout, etc. Then my health just didn't
allow me to work anymore.
Now I think I'm what you call a recluse.

Sherry

Oh, yeah. I was a typesetter many years ago, both with punchtape at
J. C. Penney and then with the Compugraphic line-at-a-time machine at
the student newspaper in college. Memories . . . light the corner of
my mind ;-)

Ginger-lyn
Jill of All Trades ;-)

ROFL That reminds me of a funny. When I worked at Prudential in the 80's
we had a new regional VP. He was showing some clients around and tried to
introduce me as a "Jack of All Trades" but he said, "She's basically a
Jackass - uh, Jack-ESS! of all Trades"

Jill

Yowie wrote:
Overseas Aussies pine for vegemite, timtams, cherry ripes, violet crumbles,
twisties and real beer :-)

TimTams sound delicious... but vegemite!?!?!?!?!?!

Victor, shuddering at the thought of vegemite....

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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message
The
significant point here was that they are about the size, shape, and
color of a puck. Before he turned, he unwrapped the Moon Pie and palmed
the puck.

Facing the players, he announced "I am getting tired of this. You think
you're tough? Let me show you tough." At which point, as far as they
were concerned, he ate the puck.///

This sounds like a GREAT practical joke. Where can I get a "Moon pie"?
;o)

Helen M (who's in the UK)


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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:12:07 +0000 (UTC), "Helen Miles"
wrote:

Where can I get a "Moon pie"?

http://www.moonpie.com