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Originally Posted by RubyPitbull Did any of you know that his mother created "White out"? You know, that liquid paper correction fluid. I am definitely dating myself here. We used it on typewritten letters and stuff like that. |
actually i DID know that!
i taught in the chemistry dept at a university, and chemists always keep research notes in lab notebooks, often with carbon copy second pages. the
big rule for proper use of the notebook is
never obliterate anything. make a mistake? ok. single line through it. never scratch it out. NEVER. patents are lost that way.
well...(yes there is a connection here)...every now and then we'd run into a student who not only violated this rule, but would use white out on the pages to cover up the mistake. nothing like using white out on a blue or yellow carbon copy to "hide" the mistake.
so (heres the connection for those still reading) a guy i worked with, when teaching students how to use the notebooks, would go into a rant. He was a stickler for proper notebook use, and would go into a rage whenever he saw white out on the pages, stating that if a time machine was ever invented he would travel back in time and kill (yes, kill) Nesmeth's mother before she could invent "
the Devil's Fluid".
ok. maybe you had to be there.
but i knew it too, ruby. you, me, and a crazy chemist.
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