Nostalgia - Or, the I'm this old, thread

[TerryMiller]

Remember when the teacher wheeled these into the classroom

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I don't remember our school having such high tech stuff.

 

[2busy]

I don't remember our school having such high tech stuff.

Woodpecker and clay tablet days eh

 

[Jason Freeland]

Remember when the teacher wheeled these into the classroom

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That was my signal to check out, bring out the overhead projector and I start to snore.

 

[Snattlerake]

Now, do you all remember the smell?

 

[Jason Freeland]

Now, do you all remember the smell?

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Yep, although we never had many of them, oil bust in the 80s left the schools short of cash for paper.

 

[Snattlerake]

Now, do you all remember the smell?

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Referenced by Bill Bryson in his memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. He writes, "Of all the tragic losses since the 1960s, mimeograph paper may be the greatest. With its rapturously fragrant, sweetly aromatic pale blue ink, mimeograph paper was literally intoxicating.

In the film Fast Times At Ridgemont High, at one point a teacher hands out a ditto machine exam paper and every student in the class immediately lifts it to his or her nose and inhales.