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heyyo 27-07-2004 14:48

what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
I am filling in application form, at the top it is headed

PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE
What does this exactly mean?

Mr_love_monkey 27-07-2004 14:50

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
ermmm.. that you need to submit 3 copies of it?

Julian 27-07-2004 14:53

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
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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 27-07-2004 14:55

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
cool I thought it meant that just wanted to make sure. Cheers

Graham 27-07-2004 15:18

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
I'm not saying a word in this thread...! :naughty:

Ramrod 27-07-2004 15:21

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Originally Posted by Graham
I'm not saying a word in this thread...! :naughty:

Graham, put it away! :D

Dave Stones 27-07-2004 16:03

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
they just print it on so you get stung with the photocopying charges, rather than them ;)

Theodoric 27-07-2004 19:18

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Originally Posted by Graham
I'm not saying a word in this thread...! :naughty:

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 27-07-2004 19:19

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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 27-07-2004 19:24

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
im only 19 and ive had to use it in my short life :D

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 ;);) :erm:

Theodoric 27-07-2004 19:26

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones
im only 19 and ive had to use it in my short life :D

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 ;);) :erm:

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 27-07-2004 19:30

Re: what does "PLEASE SUBMIT IN TRIPLICATE"
 
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 27-07-2004 19:31

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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? :confused::erm:

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

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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 :D 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 27-07-2004 19:37

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones
do they automatically put rubber bands around things? :confused::erm:

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 27-07-2004 19:40

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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. ;)


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