[PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal

John Swindler j_swindler at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 28 11:07:53 EDT 2013


 
 
I bet if you wrote a check to your great-grandchildren, they would learn cursive writing real fast.
 

 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:55:48 -0400
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal
> 
> You can still use your pens and pencils …
> 
> But you will have to print.   Cursive writing skills are no longer taught in most schools.   If you wish to have your grandchildren understand it, it must be printed.   
> 
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> On Oct 28, 2013, at 7:23 AM, PC wrote:
> 
> > Very practical advice Mr.Brannon.  :-)  We have and are literally putting all our eggs in one basket are we not.  We can not function without some electronic aid to store our phone numbers,
> > take notes, etc.  I wonder how sales of pens and pencils are faring these days.
> > 
> > Will Underwood do?  I can not remember my last machine.  It was an electric portable, at least portable at the time it was purchased.
> > 
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> > On Sun, 10/27/13, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal
> > To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> > Date: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 8:27 PM
> > 
> > Keep those Hermes Rockets* and Royal Safaris* at the ready................it may all come crashing down one of these days.
> > 
> > *Hermes Rocket and Royal Safari=Brands of portable manual typewriter available in the late 1960s,
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:57 PM, PC <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> This gives a nice thumbnail understanding of internet beginnings doesn't it.
> >> 
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
> >> 
> >> Not military.
> >> 
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> >> On Sun, 10/27/13, PC <pcc_sr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>   Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal
> >>   To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> >>   Date: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 11:11 AM
> >> 
> >>   Did not the actual internet have its start with the military?
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