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It's a little hard to explain this unless you've seen English weekly comics. This is closely based on one called The Beano, that normally featured Dennis the Menance and Gnasher. (No relation to the Hank Ketcham newspaper strip in the US.) The Beano also featured regular stories such as "The Three Bears" and "Oor Wully" (Scottish for "Our Willy".)
A Beanie, or more properly a propellor beanie, is a symbol of self-parody, long used in SF fandom to denote an immature fan, or one who hasn't yet outgrown the enthusiasm of youth. As a symbol it seems to have derived from outsiders who thought fans wore silly things like propellor beanies. It wasn't very long before someone actually made one, complete with motor to turn the propellor, and wore it at a con. By embracing the symbol it became more of a joke about the mundanes ideas about us, than about us.
Dave the Menance is a joke on a British fan, Dave Langford, who was one of the best fanwriters of the time. If you look carefully at the stencil on the mimeo you'll see the title of his zine, Twll Ddu, (a Welsh word) -- backwards, as it should be for printing on paper. Corflu is a fannish short form for correction fluid, used for filling in mistakes typed on the stencil. The Three BNF's would stand for Big Name Fans. Calling someone a BNF is a spoof of the seriousness of the sort of self-important individuals every fandom has, and might be done as a real insult or more likely a good natured jibe.
I think I have it all covered. Any questions?
What's a mimeo? ARGGH!!!!
A Beanie, or more properly a propellor beanie, is a symbol of self-parody, long used in SF fandom to denote an immature fan, or one who hasn't yet outgrown the enthusiasm of youth. As a symbol it seems to have derived from outsiders who thought fans wore silly things like propellor beanies. It wasn't very long before someone actually made one, complete with motor to turn the propellor, and wore it at a con. By embracing the symbol it became more of a joke about the mundanes ideas about us, than about us.
Dave the Menance is a joke on a British fan, Dave Langford, who was one of the best fanwriters of the time. If you look carefully at the stencil on the mimeo you'll see the title of his zine, Twll Ddu, (a Welsh word) -- backwards, as it should be for printing on paper. Corflu is a fannish short form for correction fluid, used for filling in mistakes typed on the stencil. The Three BNF's would stand for Big Name Fans. Calling someone a BNF is a spoof of the seriousness of the sort of self-important individuals every fandom has, and might be done as a real insult or more likely a good natured jibe.
I think I have it all covered. Any questions?
What's a mimeo? ARGGH!!!!
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They would and they wouldn't... You still had to run the paper through one pass for every colour. All that the multi-colour models did was give you extra ink guns and silk screens for three or four colours, and make it a bit easier to change them around. You could do as much by buying a much cheaper model and then buying separate ink guns. The silk screen could be cleaning with a solvent for every colour, saving a bit more money. That was generally how Victoria and I used to do it in the 70's.
Later, Gestetner began to go into huge integrated systems that cost 4several thousand dollars. Maybe they could do several colours without sweapping parts, I dunno. And then mimeo was obsolete and Gestetner tried to go into photocopiers with what success I have no idea.
I have an old 30's manual for using Gestetner mimeos that's a blast from the past. As well I've got a hand out about the special white mimeo Gestetner presented to the Vaticon.
Later, Gestetner began to go into huge integrated systems that cost 4several thousand dollars. Maybe they could do several colours without sweapping parts, I dunno. And then mimeo was obsolete and Gestetner tried to go into photocopiers with what success I have no idea.
I have an old 30's manual for using Gestetner mimeos that's a blast from the past. As well I've got a hand out about the special white mimeo Gestetner presented to the Vaticon.
Nope. I've typed on ditto masters and traced illustrations on them, but I've never dealt with hecktogrraphy, thank Ghu-Ghu.
(Ghu-Ghu is the fannish ghod of hecto, who's acolytes are revealed by the purple stains on their fingertips.)
I used to have some hecktoed zines in my collection. They were published by an elderly woman in Argentina.
(Ghu-Ghu is the fannish ghod of hecto, who's acolytes are revealed by the purple stains on their fingertips.)
I used to have some hecktoed zines in my collection. They were published by an elderly woman in Argentina.
Heh. My mother was an elementary school teacher back in the days when the mimeograph was king, and I often went in to help her run the machine. So yeah, I remember those things quite well, along with how everybody would sniff the fumes.
That, and growing up in Victoria, with my best friend being someone whose family had recently come over from England, I got very familiar with Beano. And their version of Dennis the Menace, the little football hooligan in training.
That, and growing up in Victoria, with my best friend being someone whose family had recently come over from England, I got very familiar with Beano. And their version of Dennis the Menace, the little football hooligan in training.
That must be an Americanism. I have reason to believe the proper Enlish pronounciation of Worcestershire is just "Woosher".
Lancaster used to be "Lankster" I think, but it may have fallen out of usage.
"Brougham" is another of my English favourites. It comes out "Broom" though in North America we allow it some semblance of its spelling by saying "Brooham" at least.
Oh! And let's not forget that fine old English first name -- adopted from the British Raj -- Chomondelay, pronounced "Chummly".
Lancaster used to be "Lankster" I think, but it may have fallen out of usage.
"Brougham" is another of my English favourites. It comes out "Broom" though in North America we allow it some semblance of its spelling by saying "Brooham" at least.
Oh! And let's not forget that fine old English first name -- adopted from the British Raj -- Chomondelay, pronounced "Chummly".
Good greif. Where do you live? I knew that you used to have to have a license or something like that in Russia to own any form of printing or reproduction, and those were generally only available to clubs or groups with the approval of the party. I guess that sort of thing is common in lots of countries, but its not the sort of detail you normally know.
There was some effort in Canada (probabaly also in the US, Britain and some other countries) to make it illegal to copy some things on xerox machines -- like legal documents, and money. I remember having trouble with one guy who wouldn't let me copy some old money printed by the Confederates during the American civil war. He was afraid of "counterfeiting", even when I told him the government that printed them ceased to exist more than 140 years ago. I just went and copied the bills somewhere else, of course.
There was some effort in Canada (probabaly also in the US, Britain and some other countries) to make it illegal to copy some things on xerox machines -- like legal documents, and money. I remember having trouble with one guy who wouldn't let me copy some old money printed by the Confederates during the American civil war. He was afraid of "counterfeiting", even when I told him the government that printed them ceased to exist more than 140 years ago. I just went and copied the bills somewhere else, of course.
Years ago (1980s?) I read a news article about bogus Confederate money - doubly worthless - being used in Kenya by people who never heard of the CSA and thought such official-looking stuff had to be official.
There are some printers and xerox machines that are set up to detect US currency and either call the cops or more likely just botch the copy in some way (adding a watermark IIRC). This isn't quite news, it came up several years ago.
I'm not sure what the situation is now, but under the Soviet Union all xerox copying was done at an official copy shop, the actual work done by a clerk who noted who and what. Unfortunately we have some folks here who think this was a great idea - to fight the terr'ists! THINK OF THE CHILLUNS! (swoons)
There are some printers and xerox machines that are set up to detect US currency and either call the cops or more likely just botch the copy in some way (adding a watermark IIRC). This isn't quite news, it came up several years ago.
I'm not sure what the situation is now, but under the Soviet Union all xerox copying was done at an official copy shop, the actual work done by a clerk who noted who and what. Unfortunately we have some folks here who think this was a great idea - to fight the terr'ists! THINK OF THE CHILLUNS! (swoons)
Think of the jobs! What easy work, shuffling and rubberstamping documents following the lives of individuals under investigation. Why we could all get rich by spying on each other! No doubt that's the explanation for the failed War on Drugs -- nevermind the drugs, think of the jobs for spies, cops, judges, lawyers, jailers, rehabilitation clinics, whoever makes Methadone, propagandists, moralizers, politicians, and mafiosi of all descriptions!
My father had a mimeograph machine at one time (c1966-69), which he used to print up stuff for local stores etc. The pages that weren't good enough were passed on to me to draw on their backs - I sometimes traced some of the clipart images through the paper. I still have a few miscellaneous sheets tucked away here & there.
That was one of the main uses for the machines at one time, that and schools & churches. Gestetner had a wide range of what amounted to clip-art, pre-cut on stencils electrically. You could add fancy borders, or pictures of women admiring a shoe, or a guy with a new lunch bucket, or gothic initials, or any number of things to your typed stencil by cutting them out and pasting them in. There were special stylus tools and templates for lettering your flyers, and abrassive surfaces to create grey backgrounds, and other tools that would make dotted lines... Oh it was all glorious! I have a significant collection of such old shit.
The mimeo on the balcony is probably okay since it's protected from water. I hope so. I've nowhere to put it inside.
The mimeo on the balcony is probably okay since it's protected from water. I hope so. I've nowhere to put it inside.
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