And they gave it to Verhoven (think Robocop).
The guy was anti-military to begin with.
If you're ever walking down the street, and see one guy punch another guy so hard everyone else on the street screams in pain... you'll know I met Verhoven...

Consider the keyboard she was doing it on... stiffer than anything modern kids have had to typo on.

My first typewriter was a Royal "portable". I think it was made in the 1940s (this was 1977). I took typing in Jr High, they started us on the manuals, then moved us to the electrics, then back to the manuals.

Best keyboard I ever typed on, though, was the "German" keyboard on my Amiga 2000. Followed, iirc, by a Gateway 2000 Anykey keyboard.

A few weeks ago I picked up a calligraphy pen and ink for it and my fountain pen at Hobby Lobby. I also dug out my a couple of handwriting practice books I picked up.

I'm hoping by re-learning to do calligraphy and learning to write in N'Dni that my handwriting will return to legible.

Who knows, maybe I'll get a job writing letters someday. Hello 19th century.

The key being "once it's heavily used".
I made that up. I don't think anyone, ever was dumb enough to make an inkjet typewriter :)

I named my dog for the protagonist in "Starman Jones". Can you guess the name? (it wasn't "Jones").

I walked out on the Starshit Troupers movie at the point where a dead Filipino guy grew boobs and showered naked with the protagonist. Only movie I ever walked out on. Including "Kiss of the Spider Woman", which my brother-in-law and I agreed we never saw. Nope. Never.

Can you name the "pet" in Red Planet, or Star Beast?

Can you name the protagonist's only ally after he's mugged and left for dead in "Tunnel in the Sky"? (Hint; he thereby owed his life to his sister...)

Can you give the nickname of the character on whom "Podkayne of Mars" was based? (Hint: the story was called, "Cliff and the Calories")

What was the mnemonic Kip used to remember the order and distance of the planets in "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel"? (my favorite of all Heinlein's works).

What was the little slave boy's full name in "Citizen of the Galaxy"? Who was the only person who aided him after his "pop" was executed?

What was the father's profession in "The Rolling Stones"?

Sorry, you guys shouldn't tempt a science fiction nerd like that.... :)

"ersatz spelling by phonetic pronunciation?"

I hadn't noticed that I was that horrible a speller.
My eldest brother, my sister and myself were taught to read phonetically, and we all read quite well.
My 2nd eldest brother was taught to read using the "word-unit" method... a "rote spelling paradigm" I guess you could call it.
He can read... if it's a word he's read before.

That shouldn't be necessary. We probably have more lawyers per capita than any other nation. They start speaking legalese, anyone who can understand them will fall asleep within 5 minutes, and the rest won't know what they're saying, anyway.

Yep. I can pick on my little brothers, but if you do, then we're going to tussle.