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[rm]

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Things that are soon to be no more if they aren't gone already: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203187.html

I challenge you to guess which one makes me saddest.

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[john-h-holliday.livejournal.com]

Press type, hm? I would have been close.
I was going to guess wax paste-up. 8^( I was a professional wax paste-up person once.

palm pilot grafitti alphabet?!!! All that playing 'giraffe' was for nothing?
lickable stamps?!!! noooooooo
suspenders (I say braces)? Not In My World!!!
good penmanship? All that training in copperplate was for nothing? No. It was not for nothing.
affordable train travel?!!! I took a whole train trip Last Year!!! It was quite affordable.
mercurochrome? but... it is so RED. and silvery at the same time...

What has saddened John most was the disappearance last year of the telegram. They do not even mention it in the article.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I remember that, the telegram. I remember people getting telegrams in my childhood. It is strange.