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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.

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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.

LMAO kp. I would have loved to have seen this guy ranting.

Is it Michael Nesmith!!

Hey hey... I'm a Monkee

Take the last train to Clarksville... ye har...


Did'nt his aunt invent Tip-ex? And make him zillions?


Opps... was beaten to it on page 2... doh!

Well I'll be a Monkeys uncle! Early day, production company, boy band crappola. Blatent commercialism at it's worst. Neil Diamond and Tommy Boyce wrote all the songs and studio muscians recorded it. Kind of like the Spice Girls or Milie Vanillie crapola. Thanks for the blast from the past Rick. I remember the schtick Micky Dolenz would do like James Brown, being lead off the stage with a cape around him as if he were having a break down. My GOD man, is nothing sacred!? I bet James Brown don't stink half as bad right now as the Monkeys did back then!

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Originally Posted by RickJ

Just fer fun:

Formerly world famous, still quite the mover and shaker but behind the scenes:

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Oh great lol, now it is going to drive me crazy all day trying to figure it out. Oh well gives me something to think about while I am painting lol. Let you know tomorrow my guess.

Well hurry, the suspense is killing me!

WOW the guy from the monkees, he sure don't look like he use to look. Now I just look younger lol as I get older (I wish).