what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"

[heyyo]

I am filling in application form, at the top it is headed

PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE

What does this exactly mean?

[Mr_love_monkey]

ermmm.. that you need to submit 3 copies of it?

[Julian]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

ermmm.. that you need to submit 3 copies of it?

Exactly.

NB it is probably an initiative test, many people would either not see that or not do it..... resulting in an unsuccessful application.

[heyyo]

cool I thought it meant that just wanted to make sure. Cheers

I'm not saying a word in this thread...!

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Graham

I'm not saying a word in this thread...!

Graham, put it away!

[Dave Stones]

they just print it on so you get stung with the photocopying charges, rather than them

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Graham

I'm not saying a word in this thread...!

Of course, you could have said it in triplicate, "I'm not saying a word, a word, a word in this thread...!"

EDIT Or to quote Bonnie Dundee, "Let Mons Meg and her marrers speak twa words or three."

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

they just print it on so you get stung with the photocopying charges, rather than them

Hands up those old enough to remember carbon paper.

[Dave Stones]

im only 19 and ive had to use it in my short life

the coursework submission forms we have at uni use carbon paper and triplicate

top form is white, we keep that as a receipt, bottom form is yellow and goes somewhere, and very bottom form is pink and gets returned with the marked coursework

you can have fun with carbon paper and random writings sometimes

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

im only 19 and ive had to use it in my short life

the coursework submission forms we have at uni use carbon paper and triplicate

top form is white, we keep that as a receipt, bottom form is yellow and goes somewhere, and very bottom form is pink and gets returned with the marked coursework

you can have fun with carbon paper and random writings sometimes

Ah, but do you have the fancy modern stuff that, unlike your old fashioned carbon paper, doesn't leave your fingers a nice shade of blue (or black)?

[Maggy J]

Hands up those of you who remember banding machines?I do not miss them one bit.

I fell down on my knees in celebration when my school got a duplicator.

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Hands up those of you who remember banding machines?I do not miss them one bit.

I fell down on my knees in celebration when my school got a duplicator.

do they automatically put rubber bands around things?

and what's a duplicator? is that like an old photocopier?

Originally Posted by theodoric

Ah, but do you have the fancy modern stuff that, unlike your old fashioned carbon paper, doesn't leave your fingers a nice shade of blue (or black)?

yes we don't all live in the dark ages you know you wouldn't even know this was carbon paper if it didn't have the copy things underneath....none of that old fashioned crapness with a pad of black in between the documents, or whatever the hell it used to be...

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

do they automatically put rubber bands around things?

and what's a duplicator? is that like an old photocopier?


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Depends how far back you want to go. The original one was called, IIRC, a Gestetner. It involved some horrible purple jelly-like substance. And now we have photocopiers that do multiple copies, collate, staple and everything except read the document for you.

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

Depends how far back you want to go. The original one was called, IIRC, a Gestetner. It involved some horrible purple jelly-like substance. And now we have photocopiers that do multiple copies, collate, staple and everything except read the document for you.

Oh yes awful,awful things.

I used to get high on the meths type smell though.