Cdespinosa, 17 days ago

@pixel that’s… fake. Both of them.

cabel, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @pixel Buying a little more time to forge another document, perhaps? (But seriously… German Red Cross?!)

pixel, 17 days ago

@cabel @Cdespinosa lol

schwa, 17 days ago

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pixel, 17 days ago

@schwa @Cdespinosa reported.

cabel, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @pixel FYI, I’m messaging the seller just to see what they say, and will report back. I “love” a good bamboozler.

Chris I’m assuming this is all complete fiction then? (A lot of work put into “aging” that map! Impressed by the yellowed tape)

Cdespinosa, 17 days ago

@cabel @pixel

That’s not Sherry Livingston.
That wasn’t taken with a Polaroid with a flash.
The laminate dimensions are all wrong.
That’s a computer font, not an IBM Selectric Orator type ball.
That’s not my original sketch, which was on a National engineering pad.

sanguish, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel you must have the mind of a steel trap to remember the type of pad you drew it on! I’m jealous. lol

Cdespinosa, 17 days ago

@sanguish @cabel @pixel we did EVERYTHING on green National computation pads.

passim, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel @pixel Those are still great btw.

pixel, 17 days ago

@passim @Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel i still use them

sanguish, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel was it someone’s favorite?

drdrang, 17 days ago

@sanguish @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel It was what engineers all over used back then. Half a continent away, pretty much all of my classmates did their homework on those pads. I still have have notes on that paper from the early 80s, and they haven’t yellowed yet.

sanguish, 17 days ago

@drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel I’m blown away by people with notes from the eighties

pixel, 17 days ago

@sanguish @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel I have notes from the early nineties, no 80s though

sanguish, 1 day ago

@pixel @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel weren’t able to write yet? 😛

pixel, 1 day ago

@sanguish @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel 😛 i was born in 75 😉

woody, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel @pixel

Arrrr... I was going to cross-reference this thread with the one in which Dana Sibera disclosed that she uses exclusively these self-printed-and-padded notes:

http://www.danamania.com/print/Apple%20Notepad%20Sheets/

...which took me down a rathole of trying to figure out how to find her thread about it, which in turn led me to this:

https://airtalk.shop/product/airtalk-complete/

pixel, 17 days ago

@woody @Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel oh neat!

cabel, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @pixel Incredible. Yes, it was the computer typewriter font that was the biggest red flag for me. Whole generations don’t know that you’d feed a printed thing into a typewriter to type the custom bit on top of it — and it shows at times like this 😌

fluffydotorg, 17 days ago

@cabel @Cdespinosa @pixel can we get some swifties to debunk and report the sellers other listing, I wonder…

cabel, 17 days ago

@fluffydotorg @Cdespinosa @pixel Oh wow, that one’s easy!! They didn’t even remotely use the correct Ticketmaster font!! Incredible. (Actual ticket on the right.)

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thomasfuchs, 17 days ago

@Cdespinosa @pixel fwiw for anyone seeing this, report to eBay (Report this item link)

passim, 17 days ago

@thomasfuchs @Cdespinosa @pixel How do we know it's fake? (Not doubting, just wondering.)

polpo, 17 days ago

@passim @thomasfuchs @Cdespinosa @pixel because @Cdespinosa, the one saying it’s fake, would be the “Chris” on the purported office diagram

thomasfuchs, 17 days ago

@polpo @passim @Cdespinosa @pixel Yeah, he has a pretty good case to make lol