English: An adding machine made by Burroughs Corporation on display at a historical museum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Visual Description: Flashback to the days of the Second Industrial Revolution.
BBRUL = BLURB, NLAST = SLANT, AMURTA = TRAUMA, TEPEMX = EXEMPT — Giving us: URSMEM
Clue/Question: When William Seward Burroughs patented his adding machine on August 21, 1888, it was this.
Answer: SUMMER
Waiter (Photo credit: Kiril Strax)
(About as easy as yesterday’s, but a better double meaning. Furthermore, I’m a sucker for historically themed Jumbles! Ya know, when I first applied at a temp agency, in NYC, way back in May of 1980, one of the tests was proficiency with an adding machine. No, kids. Not a calculator. An adding machine. Well, at least they were electric! . . . I think? Definitely NOT as old as the one in the picture you’re seeing! The one in the picture – an original – was more like the old manual typewriters, but you stood at it.. Anyway, I had never used an adding machine before in my life. I sucked at it, but I was smart enough to realize that I sucked at it. My fat, untrained fingers made SO many mistakes, but I realized them as I was making them, so I would alternately add, or subtract, the difference of the number that I entered from the one that I should have, or I’d add, or subtract, the entire erroneous number, if it wasn’t too big. We were being timed, after all. I was one of the last people to finish, and I sheepishly explained myself to the testing person, when I handed in my tape. I left thinking I’d probably have to try waiting tables, or something. Something that probably could have kept me semi-connected to the acting community. But, soon after I had gotten back to my apartment, I got a phone call saying that they had a temp job for me . . . with a bank. It was supposed to be a two week gig, but the bank kept extending it. Six months later the bank hired me as a permanent employee, and I ended up working there for the next 23 years. If I hadn’t caught all my errors that day I might have become a waiter, and maybe even what I was supposed to be . . . an actor. Life’s funny. Ain’t it?
No new clue words, but they were all jumbled well. Good answer letter layout. Nice cartoon. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Nice storyMy life was similarI wanted to be a PILOT or [something in the aircraft industry] I went to the interview for AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL [i just love aero-planes]And after to the POLICE recruitment officeSomehow i ended up as a COP for 9.5 years then In the SECURITY field to presentFUNNY HOW LIFE THROWS VARIOUS CURVE BALL @ YAI’m keeping Well and DOING GOODCHEERS
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:22:31 +0000 To: nairn3@hotmail.com
Back in the day, I was a C.P.A. (Accounting was my first career). I was pretty proficient with the adding machine– and the 10-key on expanded keyboards. It’s not a skill I use much anymore, but I’m still pretty fast. Life does take some odd turns, doesn’t it? Thanks for the pingback! 🙂
Aston & Dawn,
Thanks for the love, guys! — YUR