[PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal

Derrick Brashear shadow at dementix.org
Mon Oct 28 11:08:26 EDT 2013


i always hated cursive. at the moment even printing is a stretch, and
trying to sign things has gotten a few laughs.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------
> >> 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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