Red and Rover by Brian Basset for March 24, 2014

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    comicgos  almost 11 years ago
    Boys!
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    ORMouseworks  almost 11 years ago

    Boys will be boys…especially the one on the top! ;)

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    Catfeet Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    Maybe they should take turns!

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    awdunn2484  over 10 years ago

    …and with the loss of hot type, came the loss of real printers. Offset spelled the doom for many of us in the early 1970’s.<><me

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    rogebr  over 10 years ago

    TWISTER!!?

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    michael.p.pumilia  over 10 years ago

    Wow, all this talk about Hot Lead brings back so many memories. @Mary Kitten: You left many of the new kids on the block far behind with your explanation. And yet I knew every word and could picture the whole process.Amazing how many of us knew the process and could comment. Yeah for age and wisdom.

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    anorok2  over 10 years ago

    I used to see my older sisters play hopscotch, but not with a rock…. what’s the rock for?? Can someone tell me?

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    hippogriff  over 10 years ago

    I had a desktop publishing professor who held up a linotype slug and asked, “What is this” followed immediately by looking at me and saying, “don’t answer that.” After a moment of silence, I said, “It’s a slug, and they still don’t know any more than before.”

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    Gerald White  over 10 years ago

    Linotype is newfangled printing technology. I have a Job Press that is powered by a foot peddle and the type is set letter by letter. The terms we use today, “upper case and lower case” originated in the old print shop. The capital letters were in a tray on the upper rack of the type case, and the regular letters were in a tray on the lower level of the type case.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 10 years ago

    My dad was a typographer. I understood every word!

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