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John Byrne
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Was the spelling of "Gleetings" instead of "Greetings" intentional?••• Yes -- a play on "glee". What wacky kids we were!
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Carmen Bernardo
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Hard to believe that tech made that leap from the clunky old typewriters to our sophisticated electronic computer systems and their MS Word applications, isn't it? And I still have a relatively little-used electric model sitting near me as I type this!
Maybe I should've picked up an old manual model I saw for sale at a farmers' market yard sale a year or so back. You never know when those old clunkers may come in handy again -- like in the wake of the coming zombie apocalypse.
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John Byrne
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Hard to believe that tech made that leap from the clunky old typewriters to our sophisticated electronic computer systems and their MS Word applications, isn't it? And I still have a relatively little-used electric model sitting near me as I type this!•• There used to be -- perhaps still is -- a "typewriter" font that had an option key that allowed X overs over letters. I thought that was kinda cool, in a goofy way, but I wonder, is there a font that allows individual letters to be struck "over" other letters, in the same way I did above with "bleed" and "indicia"?
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Larry Gil
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To go back in time to that letter...the JB volcano was just about to erupt.
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Peter Martin
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I was June 16 of '75.------------------------- The day before me!
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Charles Valderrama
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WOW. nice "trip" into the past. I was 9 yrs old in '75.
-C!
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Kevin Brown
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I was 12 when that letter was written.
'75 was a year of HUGE changes for me as well..... The end result being my mother and I moving much closer to the Chicago area and me finding a comics store in January of '76.
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David Bensette
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I was nine and would scour the city on my bike looking for comics at all the corner stores.
Different stores would have different books.
I think my whole income from my paper route went towards my hobby.
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John Byrne
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I was nine and would scour the city on my bike looking for comics at all the corner stores.Different stores would have different books ••• I did the same when I was a kid. The thrill of the hunt!
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Emery Calame
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"There used to be -- perhaps still is -- a "typewriter" font that had an option key that allowed X overs over letters. I thought that was kinda cool, in a goofy way, but I wonder, is there a font that allows individual letters to be struck "over" other letters, in the same way I did above with "bleed" and "indicia"?"
I don't know about a font precisely but I've seen blog and forum text-entry fields that have that have strike-through as a formatting option like Bold, or Italics, super script, sub script, spoilers, etc. I'm not sure which ones though.
There seem to be online tools that do something similar for copy and paste operations.
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