Old Enough To Remember?

I do have to admit, I don't know "Gestetner" but am guessing it's English-English for mimeograph.
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Gestetner is a type of machine designed for duplicating paperwork and is named after the man who invented it. These machines became so ubiquitous that all duplicating machines were referred to as Gestetners in the same way that all pain relief pills were referred to as Aspirins and all facial tissues were referred to as Kleenex.
 
I've never heard of a Gestetner machine either. I'm also thinking it is what we called a mimeograph machine in the US. It had blue copy and a definite aroma. The newer the copy the stronger the aroma!
 
Ron said:
I've never heard of a Gestetner machine either. I'm also thinking it is what we called a mimeograph machine in the US. It had blue copy and a definite aroma. The newer the copy the stronger the aroma!
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Similar but different execution. They both produce ink copies but using different methods. Mimeograph is more like silk screening while Gestetner is more like a minuturized printing press from what I remember but I don't remember much detail as I was a child when I used one.
 
I remember when America had battleships
as part of its Navy.

Now we don’t.

(or if they have something they call a “battleship” today, it’s nothing like the term battleship from the old days. A mobile firing platform for the biggest cannons.
Maybe today’s version is a guided missile cruiser or something….)IMG_0132.jpeg

Pic of me 12/30/25 on the deck of the USS Alabama after visiting the “last ride of the year” in Stockton, AL.
 
gunsmoker said:
I remember when America had battleships
as part of its Navy.

Now we don’t.

(or if they have something they call a “battleship” today, it’s nothing like the term battleship from the old days. A mobile firing platform for the biggest cannons.
Maybe today’s version is a guided missile cruiser or something….)IMG_0132.jpeg

Pic of me 12/30/25 on the deck of the USS Alabama after visiting the “last ride of the year” in Stockton, AL.
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reminding me of this anecdote appearing frequently:

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On March 15, 1952, while off the coast of Korea, the USS Wisconsin received a direct hit from a North Korean 155mm (or possibly 152mm) gun, causing minor damage and injuring three sailors.

In response to this slight, the Wisconsin fired all nine of its massive 16-inch guns in a devastating broadside, completely destroying the enemy artillery position.

An escorting destroyer, likely the USS Buck (DD-761) or USS Duncan (DD-761), humorously signaled the battleship with the message
"Temper, Temper," acknowledging the battleship's fiery and excessive response.


As I understand their response simply obliterated that entire mountain site, so they had to alter and redraw all maps of that area...
So I seriously wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of a "grunt" by such a leviathan...
 
Those big guns on a battleship are impressive looking but had such poor range. The battleship can lob one 24 miles and had low accuracy at that range. A Tomahawk cruise missile can hit 1500 miles away. So a battleship docked at Long Beach can't even hit across the "town" (LA area). A modern submarine docked at Long Beach can hit out to Kansas City with 152 1,000 pound missiles....
 
The other day, in a history museum, I was surprised to see they had a phone booth.
To me, the only "old fashioned" feature it had was a rotary dial, not push buttons.
Well, and the fact that a call only cost 10 cents. Although I did "drop a dime" in a few payphones back during my childhood, although by the time I was a teenager they'd all gone up to a quarter.
 
Our great-grandchildren will one day say "My grandpa lived in the days when people could drive their own cars without computer control and robotic steering. And Grandpa even had 2-wheel cars called "motorcycles" that had no remote control, no government override, no self-balancing gyros, and were legal for use on the public streets, not just racetracks or private motorsports parks."
 
gunsmoker said:
I'm old enough to remember 3-wheel ATV's and "jarts" or lawn darts.
Both of which got banned by the nanny state-- the ever-intrusive federal government. Big Brother knows what's best for us children and which toys are too dangerous to let us play with.
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Don't know if you remember the debate over banning 3-wheelers. Many of the accidents they used to fuel the ban were from 4-wheel atv crashes.
 
Oldbikefixr said:
Don't know if you remember the debate over banning 3-wheelers. Many of the accidents they used to fuel the ban were from 4-wheel atv crashes.
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As I always say -

"Figures don't lie but liars do figure!" :biggrin:
 
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