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Is it uncharitable of me to want to go hurt people who talk about writing in terms of "banging something out"? I last "banged something out" at 4 -- and got a spanking for the marks I left in the dining room table.
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I always associated *Banging something out* as a term of art, involving the quick use of a manual typewriter followed by cursory proof reading.
Not really quite the same with a whisper quiet keyboard and spell check.
Isab at December 14, 2015 1:01 PM
Obligatory: Pics (of those marks) or GTFO.
jerry at December 14, 2015 1:28 PM
Yeah, better to bang things out on a good MilSpec desk like this one.
jdgalt at December 14, 2015 2:37 PM
Jerry, my 78-year-old mom's too busy at the gun range, or I would comply!
Amy Alkon at December 14, 2015 3:39 PM
Milspec?
Amy Alkon at December 14, 2015 3:39 PM
Military spec?
Picture, or it doesn't exist!
Amy Alkon at December 14, 2015 5:10 PM
I still use an old manual typwriter, and it really does require 'banging'!
jefe at December 14, 2015 6:17 PM
HaHa! You mean age 4. For about three seconds there I thought you meant while writing at 4 in the morning, which was an amusing thought.
Ken R at December 14, 2015 6:22 PM
Guilty as charged. Daily deadlines have a way of making me noisy.
KateC at December 14, 2015 7:26 PM
Hurt them for me, will ya!
In my field (instructional design) I get flack from so many people that they think what I do takes no effort at all.
Okay, then, do it yourself I tell them - but, they just can't.
I just gotta stop making things look so easy.
charles at December 14, 2015 8:11 PM
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