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ouch!
"now you've gone and hurt yerself", don't do that bbp!
there's got to be somethin yer not getting done while awake . . .
of course, haven't finished the novel "How To Count Sheep Without Getting Trod Underfoot: A Thousand Boring Tales of Droning Banality"

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I've worked with big die cutting and industrial printing machines, as well as cardboard production, and plastics extrusion, all told about five years and all for the purpose of 'point-of-purchase' marketing of products. The stuff at the cash register that holds that stuff? the racks that hold greeting cards? and knick knack shelfs at stores. stand-alone cardboard merch holders with a giant cardboard garfield on top? zillions of em. that's what we did.


You guys worked how big pressings? like 20 5"x8" sheets are something?
I dunno, I'm guessing from what you say package printing.

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Imagined prerforming the ol' "in-out in-out" (horizontal bop, tubesnake boogie) with the new girl at work.

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I just buggered off work early, and drove home in a blinding snow storm. Got here , slowly, in one undamaged piece, through about 4 inches of snow on the roads. No way I was waiting 'til 5pm and rush hour. Freezing rain is supposed to start in another hour.
Since printing has become part of this thread, I'll mention that from 1973 to 2004 I was a film stripper at 2 consecutive printing plants. Then computers finally killed off my trade, so now I do cost estimating. (with all that seniority it was cheaper to re-train me than let me go!)

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

Went to get blood work done and the doctor's office looked like Iraq so I changed my appointment and RAN to my car before the sludge got me infected.

we didn't print sheets,, we printed a web,,,,

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if you knew suzie, like I know suzie, oh, oh, oh what a creamcheese,,,,

yeah, we had some of those, but the ones we used looked ... older.

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.....completed yet another trip around the sun.

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"If Frank Zappa cut a fart and mixed it to stereo, I'd buy it!" - jimmie d

when and bought a keyboard.stopped my pc from freeze n

must and been the blimp burns.

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

I went into Edinburgh city centre and bought me one of these



So now i can listen to both Zappa DVD-Audio discs in all their full splendour.

Met with a Realtor for initial discussions on possibly selling my house and moving to another house. Also, today I broke my personal record for consecutive days staying alive (13,743).

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Let's hear it again for the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

I died.

[size=0]Isaac[/size]

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I want dis little pussy
Baby wants some o' dis
And some o' dat
Don't treat me, baby, like your
Any old Alley Cat
Alley Cat, Alley Cat

Jimmie D Fan

I farted.

I wallpapered the guest loo.

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What's the ugliest part of your body ?

i waited...

Dying is on my to do list.

Today I avoided work since there was an awesome ice storm that made driving not worth the risk of getting stuck. Thousands of area homes are without electricity.

Then took a generator over to a friend who lost power in the night.

Last but least: work on my resume'

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LOL
film stripping?
vas is dat?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jimmie D!!


















sorry I'm late!

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To achieve full colour in offset printing, 4 colours are laid one on the other in varying densities. Each of the four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) is shot as a piece of film. Film stripping is sticking these negatives on four seperate bits of mylar (clear plastic) so that they line up exactly (so it doesn't look blurry when they print over each other). Plus lots of other stuff to create a finished page, poster, box whatever.
The only job I ever had that was actually fun!

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

I watched Frank on a skit with coneheads.

and a fine old profession it is too!
I was only taught the basics of film stripping back in 1994, before I was given a mac and a scanner and was told to "get on with it..." and start ripping (instead of stripping...).
I worked for that company until 2002, and by then they only had one guy left who did film stripping, and the last company I worked for got computer-to-plate two years ago.

the new place I started at yesterday is all digital too.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Yup, gotta love a society based on having a job, to make money, to buy Zappa albums, which insists on developing technology to replace 8 strippers and 3 plate makers with 3 desktop people, 1 platemaker and 1 stripper/platemaker. The reason I bought my first computer was to learn desktop before the fat lady sang. That part didn't work out, but that's how I discovered the internet, the Zappa website, and, eventually, this forum.
(not to mention I get to snaggle all that Adobe stuff for my home computer, for free.)

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

yeah, that's a nice perk.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Today I was hit in the head with a volleyball.

Its more contact with the ball than I normally get... I can't believe I'm still required to take gym class.

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Thanks, Punky - I was wondering whether anyone would figure it out. I completed yet another trip around the sun on March 1. I hear that these days the 50s are the new 30s.

Hey, girls! I may be too old for you, but you're not too young for me!

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"If Frank Zappa cut a fart and mixed it to stereo, I'd buy it!" - jimmie d