1 - skywatcher
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Typewriter Day
Greetings All
Looks like Typewriter Day (June 23rd) is coming up real fast. Why is June 23rd Typewriter Day? History tells us it was on June 23rd in the year 1868 that Christopher Latham Sholes was awarded or granted the US patent for his typewriter (see for source of information). Take your favorite portable or travel typewriter to your local Starbucks or Tim Horton's and start a conversation with other customers just for the fun of it. Take care and all the very best,
Sky
We humans go through many computers in our lives, but in their lives, typewriters go through many of us.
In that way, they’re like violins, like ancestral swords. So I use mine with honor and treat them with respect.
I try to leave them in better condition than I met them. I am not their first user, nor will I be their last.
Frederic S. Durbin. (Typewriter mania and the modern writer)
- beak
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Re: Typewriter Day
I didn't even know that there was such a thing as Typewriter Day - is this USA only, or have those from elsewhere heard of it before now?
Last edited by beak (13-6-2015 00:14:38)
Sincerely,
beak.
- colrehogan
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Re: Typewriter Day
From what is in the link above, it is a worldwide thing. I was reading about it last night and this morning.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
- KatLondon
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Re: Typewriter Day
Like my personal favourite, International Talk Like a Pirate Day... Typewriter Day is on a Tuesday, it seems... Well I MIGHT be able to face taking the Baby or someone on an outing, but in central London the danger of looking insufferably pretentious is pretty high, I think... & I worry about the noise bothering people. I've had some nice moments with typewriters in coffee shops, but they were always in outlying suburban areas, & I was only tinkering.
I might find some other way to mark the day, but I'll be working from morning till 9pm anyway.
- ztyper
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Since I'm up late 'cause school is out for summer, I'd might as well wish everyone a happy Typewriter Day! 
A high schooler with a lot of typewriters. That's pretty much about it.
- TypewriterGuy
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Re: Typewriter Day
Happy Typewriter Day!
Back from a long break.
Starting fresh with my favorite typer. A Royal Futura!
- colrehogan
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Happy Typewriter Day!
I have letters to respond to so maybe I'll get a start on them tonight. 
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
- KatLondon
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Re: Typewriter Day
I celebrated by... er... you know. A green Silent-Super with white keys, on a buy-it-now that was lower than you normally see them over here, not that you see them much... And it would have been very affordable to someone who wasn't already overdrawn! It will satisfy my curiosity: the SS that I have now is a LOVELY typer, though with no 5/£ key, and the 3 sticks, but I'm slightly perishing to find out what it's like to type on one that hasn't had to be brought back from the dead. If it's just the same then I'll give myself a massive pat on the back.
I've got to sell a few, really. But not today, that would be wrong.
Happy Typewriter Day!
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- malole
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Re: Typewriter Day
OOh I think I know the one you mean! great stuff.
We have had a family mad-hatters typewriter party, with little cakes and silly stories. Happy Typewriter Day, all!
- Uwe
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Priceless!! I would expect those dark spots on the muffins to be pieces of ribbon?
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
