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Rob NorrisRaise your hand if you ever made a paper snake out of tear-off tractor-feed margins.
cλémentd@tpolecat π
Allpoints@tpolecat ποΈ
/me really misses wide format green bar
/me really misses wide format green bar
brendan mcadams
Mark Tomko@tpolecat I too am somewhat old
petur πΆπΊπ¦π΅πΈπΉπΌ
DeeAnn Little
Space Hobo
β Fish Id Wardrobe@tpolecat π It was a sort of tic for me ... wait I was stimming, wasn't I? Ha.
LB
Madame Aronow
Luke
arosien@tpolecat wow i totally forgot about those
Snerk Rabbledauber@tpolecat πββοΈ
Nightlynxββπ¨β
Clement Cavadore@tpolecat πββοΈ
post-Gundam cryptography@tpolecat my mom showed me how to do this with the margins from green-and-white line printer paper
Mike P
John Lusk
Irina@tpolecat *raises hand*
Richard K Niner@tpolecat Among other shapes
π¦ πΈFaux around & find outβ οΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Aylin Ahmed
Seth Galitzer@tpolecat β obvs. But why is nobody pointing out that super nice NLQ dot matrix printout?
bookworks π@tpolecat Dot matrix. Clickety-clack. Continuous check stock, green and white bar paper. And those marbled report covers with plastic strips to anchor in place. #bookkeeping #accounting #AlmostRetired my kids loved playing office with that paper.
deech@tpolecat and that was the last time printers just worked lol
Ives
Zan
Derek Caelin is writing a book@tpolecat future generations will not understand how right this was to do
Hugo Mills@tpolecat And pentagons. (Tie a simple overhand knot in it and carefully flatten).
With care, you can do two different kinds of heptagon with a similar process. After that, it gets hard.
Swen ThΓΌmmler@tpolecat those were the days...
Sally Monster@tpolecat OMG nostalgia-bomb! You just unlocked a hidden memory in my brain! π₯°
kiki@tpolecat I made so many of these when I was a child!
Heather π»@tpolecat Springy Springs!
ChloΓ© Raccoon@tpolecat @mattgrayyes wait.. you mean there were people who didn't???
Giulio Cesare Solaroli@tpolecat I was doing pentagon knots instead of snakes: https://www.cutoutfoldup.com/104-tie-a-pentagon.php
Darren Bennett
a.d. ο£Ώπ½πΊπΈ@tpolecat πββοΈ
Mat Gadd@tpolecat I spent SO MUCH of my early career talking end users through setting custom paper sizes in Windows as it would regularly just forget and revert to A4/Letter. Therapy snakes.
Soulful Minion of Unorthodoxy
π¦π¦ DarkOverord 
@tpolecat One of the D&T labs at school had a load left over after the move to newer tech that we used as scrap paper and I constantly did this haha
Librus@tpolecat More than just snakes! All kinds of shapes and things.
... I'm a fidgeter/crafter at heart. I cannot be trusted around any degree of office supplies: they *will* get turned into sculptures. (Like my infamous "tapesseract").
malevolent dictator for life@tpolecat oh god I did that a lot, though more often with those spiral bound notebook things
mirabilos@tpolecat all the time!
Jennifer@tpolecat oh yeah!!!
ZombieMcMew@tpolecat πβ dang those memories are shelved back in the way back.
mathildeD_V 
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Stephen Collins@tpolecat π€πΌ
JΓ©rΓ΄me Carretero
einspruch@tpolecat Of course.
I used to call this "chit."
The story I heard was that someone used to print things out, and their boss (who had a particular accent) used to say, "Get that chit off of there."
So "chit" it was.
enthraxxx
vga256@tpolecat it's bizarre that my sister and i both made these as kids without ever seeing one before. we didn't call them snakes, but they were exactly the same design. π
Angela@tpolecat ah, memories
Woozle Hypertwin@tpolecat Many, many times.
Wow... things I had forgotten about. π΅
OldTurkπ½Focus: #FreePeltier@tpolecat I did. And I lined up the holes with the ink cartridge of a pen so theyβd all be centered
Ross A. Baker@tpolecat I can hear this image.
Michael Strasser
Jackson@tpolecat This is a surprisingly crisp photo from 1980.