Steno-Disc Records Actual Business Letters

Artist unknown, produced by Jerrold B. Thorpe, Keane Records, Hollywood, CA.  (early to mid 1950s).

No. 507 – “Congressional Record”
SIDE A
Track 1: 9 min. at 150 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 160 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
SIDE B
Track 1: 9 min. at 170 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 189 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice

Back cover is from Steno-Disc No. 513 – Business Letters for Students and Shorthand Brush-Up by Steno-Disc Records, Los Angeles CA.

Bet you want to hear a sample, ya? Steno-Disc No.506 is a good ‘un. On Track 4 a guy quits his job at the Globe Sales Co. and gets hired by a competitor. He doesn’t bother to give his name to his boss, Mr. Carl Fox, but I assume Carl figured it out when the guy didn’t show up for work on Monday.

There’s a three-car pile up on Track 10. Some guy who just quit his job went on a bender and ended up in court.

Some reasonably priced copies of several editions are available at Discogs.
The woman on the covers of the series? Carol Burnett.

False Advertising

[Found here.]

Break for Temporary Internet Outage

Wind blows and Spectrum service  goes into the hidey hole. It went out last night, just came back up a few minutes ago.
I’ll have something new up tomorrow – Bunk

Temporary Anomalie in the Space Time Continuum

Internet service was temporarily suspended due to climate change, Covid XMR, institutional racism or some other crisis. New stuff tomorrow.

No words…

R.I.P. Rush Limbaugh

…And We’re Back!

Yep, the little beasties were yanked out by their fuzzy little arses and sent straight to h-e-double-hockey-sticks.

I’m still recuperating, mentally and physically, but at least I’m out of the hospital. I was sleeping in 3 hour stints and walking laps around the ward in the wee hours – the night shift nurses were more fun.

I’m not quite done as the docs still have to rip out the staples and decide on my next adventure.

Thanks to all who sent good wishes, both here and elsewhere. They helped a lot.

P.S. Thanks to Michelle S. for the card above.

An Unplanned Vacation

Yeah, I’m gonna go dark for a while. Might be a week or more.

Seems I’ve got a nasty little beastie inside that requires some medical attention. I don’t know how long the recovery is going to take or what it entails, but I’ll find out soon enough. Meanwhile, check out the great sites in the blogroll, tell ’em I sent you.

Rock on wit yo bad sefs.

Bunk

Q: Name one new law that can be enacted that would have prevented the massacre in Las Vegas.

A: You can’t.

For Calo

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