• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were common technologies for printing small quantities of a document, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. For even smaller quantities, up to about five, a typist would use carbon paper.

          Comparatively,

          we’re so spoiled!

          They called them spirit duplicators because they used alcohol :o

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        The ink was purple and smelled weird. You could always tell when the teacher had run off the copies (we sometimes called them dittos) right before class.

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      Attention, Mr. Teacher, your dittos are in your faculty mailbox.

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      One thing that’s missing is the “chad” licking a plague rat.

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    “engaging political debate on twitter”… I think the last engaging political debate on twitter was maybe 10 years ago. Now it’s just a cesspool of hate and misogyny, not to mention the retarded rebrand from its equally retarded owner.

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    I’m so glad I went to school before internet memes were a thing.

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    This appears to have originated at ifunny.co. So, not likely to be a real classroom exercise.

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    I need more context as to what this is for. Is this what we’re teaching children?

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    Soyjak: Pizza toppings are gross! I just eat the materials raw!

    Chad: Eat what you want, how you want.

    Edit: I just realized, this isn’t political enough for some people (non-Italians). Imagine Pizza is a metaphor for cannibalism. There, it’s now political.