I have a cat,
He's an uppercase cat,
He gets my attention
Whatever I'm at,
If I'm typing a letter,
the "Caps Lock" he paws,
He's a CAPITAL cat
with CAPITAL claws!
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Cats and capitals - for Vittorio
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😂😂 love this poem ☺️
Thanks Hiba, I was inspired by Vittorio's earlier post.
I first learnt on an old fashioned non electric Remington. Back in the day! I can remember punching out letters on my 2nd hand machine and being thrilled as a teenager to see my words in print!
Omg I remember learning on a manual typewriter too and how my hands ached at the end of the day. I loved electric typewriters when they came in.
Anyone remember carbon paper? It was a nightmare and I had to type things with half a dozen of them in. They were always falling apart and you had to make corrections 6 times. Yuck!
Tippex was a big improvement but mine was always too thick or too runny. I don't long for the old days at all.
One thing I never regret is learning to copy type if only for the brownie points when colleagues would say in awe how do you type and talk to us at the same time. 
Carbon paper! I used to work at the Old Bailey and using pre-electric typewriters and 2 or even 3 sheets of carbon paper. Thankfully it wasn't my main task but one of the two secretaries. Good old days. (I'd forgotten all about carbon paper!)
You wouldn't have forgotten about if you had to use it much! I still have nightmares to this day....
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It wasn't a poem. It was a post apologising to members having received criticisms for too much of capital letters ( I guess some people find the habit rude or unecessary.) Vittorio blamed it on the cat depressing the "caps lock" key!
It was on a different site and only 1 member who criticised the use of capitals. The rest all said so what and that's how Vittorio types and that's fine.
Thanks for the explanation. I thought it was good how many here said "no problem".
I trained on a non electric but they were awkward I think.
Nowhere near as awkward as the manual ones!
Yes, that's right a non electric. 😊
Imagine smashing those for 8 hours a day.....
After I trained I didn't go into office work for ten years so by the time I got back to typing, most of them were electric thank goodness.
Good luck with that! 🤞
Lovely poem and cat 😸
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My last job was in the Health Service, we had an office base and Tipex was banned!! Although we had the computer for letters and reports, the patient notes had to be hand written, and any mistakes had to have a line drawn through ( had to be able to read what had been written), and be dated and initialled, all to make them suitable in case we had to go to court. Our bosses found that the only way to make this happen, was to ban Tipex.
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