"jeffing" for drinks

[George Thompson]

That was the second typing mistake in that post.  In the first, I typed that the quad was a piece of black type; I meant to write "blank"-- there's nothing on it that touches the paper, so it leaves no mark, but creates a space.

Type setting was a compulsory course for boys in my high school -- I admit to being an old codger, but I would have to be a danged old codger to have been in high school when setting type by hand was a eligible future occupation -- but type setting was compulsory, anyway.  Nonetheless, I forget how wide an em quad was -- I suppose it was square in section, rather that rectangular , and when thrown there would be 3 losing possibilities and just one winning.

Girls were compelled to learn how to bake cookies.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 1:54 pm
Subject: Re: "jeffing" for drinks
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU


> Knick or nick?
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> m a m
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> On Jan 2, 2008 9:08 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > Lovely! Two terms, a practice, and alcohol involved too! A perfect
> > joy! So to speak.
> >
> > James Harbeck.
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