laugh of the day

[cellio]

Bill Walsh writes about an episode of the Amazing Race in which teams were required to use a manual typewriter to type a supplied passage. The passage contained the number "1". Sadly, Bill notes, the token old people had already been eliminated. Apparently hilarity ensued. (I presume there were no remaining middle-aged people either. I assume that most people of my generation would have known what to do.)

And the title of Bill's post? "LOL 101". :-)

Comments

[sethg]

My first home computer was an Apple ][+, and I remember that the manual explicitly pointed out that you shouldn’t type “l” for “1” or “O” for “0”.

There was a how-to-type textbook lying around the house—I assume it had originally been my mother’s—that included instructions on how to make an exclamation point: apostrophe, backspace, period.

[cellio]

Wow, I don't remember ever having to make my own exclamation points!

[sethg]

Now, notice what happens when you hit SHIFT-1 on a standard American keyboard.