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[Carroll Grigsby]

On Monday 16 June 2008 11:44:59 pm Tim wrote:
> Tim:  (about cut and paste)
>
> >> I always thought that term came from designing newspaper page
> >> layouts.
>
> Craig White:
> > probably more accurate to say offset printing which allowed you to
> > create plates from a camera so you could do paste-ups on cardboard.
>
> Fair enough.  I can remember going for a tour through our newspaper
> building when they still worked that way.  We were led through the whole
> production process, in order.
>
> Somewhere I still have my name on a metal block - one of the linotypers
> bashed out all our names for us, and I kept mine.  I wish I could find
> it, I could use it for neatly naming my plastic possessions with a bit
> of applied heat.  ;-)
>
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686

Tim:
If and when you try that little experiment, be very careful when you heat up 
the "metal" block -- the "metal" is a lead alloy and has a rather low melting 
point.

-- cmg