YSaC, Vol. 1109: It’s Eclectic! (Boogie, Woogie, Woogie!)
2011 October 27
Panasonic eclectic typewriter. – $35
Panasonic eclectic typewriter. Model E3008. Good condition. $35. Like new
Peter
Eclectic, huh? We’ll be the judge of that. Let’s see what we’ve got…
OK, the first character here is an ankh. Followed by an aleph, a theta, a आ, a ж, and what appears to be an italic squirrel. On the second row there’s the letter “b” eight times, but in a different color each time, and some of them are upside down. And the third row doesn’t seem have keys per se, but rather a row of lego figures holding various construction tools and farm implements.
Yep, that’s a pretty eclectic typewriter. Incidentally, “Italic Squirrels” is the name of my Super Furry Animals cover band.
Thanks, Stephanie!
Also known as a QWERKY keyboard.
I’m attempting to make a Dvorak pun here, but keep failing miserably. Anyone else?
I’ve been trying to make diner…dinger..dinmer, but the keyboard only has one ‘n’.
So I’ll probably go hungry.
I forgot to pay my eclectic bill, so now the typewriter works only for business correspondence.
I’m part of an eclectic co-op, so I have to share my eclecticity with others.
I just steal mine from the neighbors.
I remember a 2 page paper on artificial intelligence I wrote in high school. Due to my typotacular nature I continually spelled intelligence incorrectly. Luckily, I had spellcheck! Which selected something other than intelligence as the closest word to what I wanted… and I didn’t look to closely at it.
A “correct all” later paired with forgetting to proof read and I turned in one of the most complete and profound papers on “Artificial Inelegance” ever written.
Did you remember to sign it “Gerg?”
Love the new owl Lyle. It’s perfect for responding to Gerg.
Bemused owl finds your antics bemusing.
Bemused owl looks like my dad when he’s awakened from a nap before he’s done.
I think of my new avvie as “Skeptical Owl is Skeptical.”
It’s TypoMagic!
Pure awesomesauce, darlin’, pure awesomesauce.
My instructor claimed that he had never laughed harder at a paper. By that merit alone (and the consistancy of the misspelling mixed with genuinely good content) I still got a B on it.
However, he did use it when calling on me from time to time:
“Taco, since you’re a kid of higher than average inelegance; what do you think the answer is?”
Wow, that’s so cool. Even back then he know that your screen name would be “Taco”.
I’ve always prided myself on my 100%-natural inelegance, but I recognized that people who are not as naturally gifted as I might need to resort to the artificial kind.
I repeated you. I must be naturally inelegant.
“Natural inelegance” = when you leave the bathroom and you’re surprised if you DON’T have tp stuck to your shoe.
I prefer my inelegance natural
So… being a redneck?
Hey, it takes skills and preparation to be a natural redneck.
Like knowin’ y’need three fillet’n knives: One fer catfish; one f’r reg’lar fish; an’ one f’r everyt’ing elst.
Another great moment from my academic life is the very last line of my signal processing midterm paper on Butterworth filters:
“Truly the Butterworth Filter is worth its weight in… butter… great.”
The professor in question is well known for his puns, so I actually got 1% bonus credit for that one and a comment similar to, “Well, you’ve obviously been paying attention in class.”
Back on the old farm, Pa kept the cattle inside an eclectic fence. The fence was made of rock and white pickets and twigs and wire. I don’t think the fence kept the cattle in the field, I think that the moat he dug outside of it did the trick.
Pa was ahead of his time. Kinda eccentric. Or as Sparky would say, “epileptic”.
It’s not blue. I only like my eclectics blue.
Awww, thanks :-p
I used to watch the Eclectic Company on public television. Those kids were so lucky, they got to do a lot of different things in every episode.
I could never figure out how to pull it all together at the end of the show though.
And here I thought Italic Squirrel was Taco’s extra fancy costume. I learn something new ever day.
Neat, there is a band called the Italic Squirrels, just Googled it.
Is the lead singer an Ostrimu?
[fond memory corey]
Years and years and years ago(it was a long time past, okay) I had Typing as a high school elective. At that time, my school was still kind of behind the times and we had to learn on those fancy IBM Selectric typewriters. The only spellcheck we had was our own eyes and corrections were made with the whiteout tape in the typewriters (which was a step up from the liquid whiteout which makes a huge mess when you’re trying to cover just one tiny letter). I believe Panasonic and IBM were the go-to typewriters for most schools at that time. [/geez, was it that long ago? corey]
So I shared all that to say — ‘like new’, Peter? Seriously?
I was wondering if “like new Peter” meant the writer has only had one sexual relationship. Sorry, it’s used pal, get over it.
I wonder if “like new” means it still has that new Peter smell?
I’m just fine going to the corner today. I’m sleepy, and I would love some coffee slices and pastries.
We will have to ask Tinkerbell about the “new Peter smell”.
Well she is about the same size…
Hey look, pumpkin spice coffee slices! I wish I liked pumpkin spice.
Good lord, I took typing for a semester on an IBM Selectric when I was a freshman. I remember that once we got our speed up, the room sounded like a firing range with automatic weapons. The ball with the type on it in those things was loud. But we could always still hear the radio! My word but top 40 was terrible then. *hides “Totally ’80s!” CD collection*
WordPerfect killed the Selectric Star.
[small world corey]
I took Typing as an elective as a senior in HS, too, back in 1978.
Synchronicity, it is a thing.
Now, I had worked in an architect’s office before that, and they had IBM Selectrics. Not that big a deal, lots of folk did–only they had a full range of key globes–Italic, Bold, Special Characters. And, all of those in Elite, not Pica–made for spiffy contract specifications documents.
So, the school Selectrics, with only Pica globes seemed a step backwards. The fact that they only had the Accounting (Red) second ribbon, instead of the StrikeOut (correction) one, was vastly annoying.
[/corey]
I already have a headache and now I have that song stuck in my head!! Sweet Mother of Beesus.
“Mother of Beesus” makes me think of Beavis and Butthead and…
(o/t but AWESOME)
The new episodes come on tonight! Yes! Heh! I know they’re lame and stupid and annoying but I miss that show so bad!
Sorry, I’m done now.
Hey, quit teasing my typewriter! Just because Peter got the typewriter in the settlement, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t still identify itself as mine… And now he’s selling it on Craigslist, after saying that he couldn’t live without it! *sniff* I miss that typewriter…
*pat pat*
*wrestles remainder of well-traveled tissue box from Sister and hands to EB with the freshly laundered fluffy pillow*
These two are getting a workout this week.
Damn you, freaky puppy!
*sniffle, sniffle*
Oh, I get it! Steve Jobs updated St. Peter’s inventory system, and now he can sell the old one!
Now I hear he’s working on Moses’ tablets.
I now have ‘She’s Electric’ by Oasis firmly stuck in my head. It was meant to be ‘She’s Eclectic’ but Noel Gallagher allegedly couldn’t spell eclectic.
Hey, I bought that typewriter. Let’s see how it works.
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:gasp!:
To the corner with you, young man!
Do Androids dream of eclectic iPhones?
I though an Italic Squirrel was what Mario’s redneck cousin caught and ate when the Greek Koopas were scarce?
CJ, I think you just about filled up your first card! Better start a new one. Punchity Punch Punch!
G’Night, Henry Mill!