Mimeograph machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia if you dont know what a mimeo looks like here is an example.. this one isnt very purple and blotty but they often were purple and blotty... this mimeo is from rutgers and they are big time and probably know how to work a mimeo machine unlike Richmond Public Shcools... RPS lived by the mimeo machine well into the xerox age as too i am sure did other public school systems... the purple juicy ink that you put in them got you high... and i remember how cool it was that you sat there and turned a crank to churn out purple blotty sheets of whatever that were sometimes not legible... a lot of times the sheets would get crossed a bit and the text columns would slant off to teh sides and get cut off.. just like in the days of early xerox's when they sucked and the fumes of those got you high as well... also interesting was when the teachers aid (who was a mean bitch usually) would run out of mimeo fluid and have to get some and then she would spill it on herself... that was always really good...
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yeah, VA schools... i remember that shit. i rode passed my old high school in manasty a few months ago, it was torn down.
There was nothing like fresh mimeo to make you look forward to your next test. Deeeep snifffff of fresh mimeo - the high they couldn't get you for!
I still occasionally get the old-school blueprints that were sealed just out of the repro.
If you don't air 'em out they'll knock you out with an odd combo of nail-polish and cat-pee smells.
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