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  • March 3, 2008 at 1:45 pm u no, I DO likes me dat bac-2-da-future-y OCR2. makew me wanst 2 whip outz my selectric II balls.

    HI, I IZ CAPTION - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Although it was built in 1893, it might remind you of the typeball on an IBM selectric.

    Rob’s Birthday maryrobinette 2007

  • The media is too busy worrying about fonts on selectric typewriters and other trivialities, which have sucked all the air out of public discourse.

    Balkinization 2004

  • Before that it was the IBM selectric, although, ours had fancy erasable ink.

    Tales of Horror From Years Gone By « Whatever 2006

  • He came to the office every day, and typing away on his selectric typewriter revised his marvelous tax treatises, wrote an entirely new book on the Commerce Clause and, just a few years ago, began a massive new volume on church and state.

    September 2005 2005

  • I guess it's possible to have had a special selectric "ball" with both straight and curly apostrophes, but I don't remember one.

    60 Minutes Documents forged? UndercoverPunk 2004

  • The media is too busy worrying about fonts on selectric typewriters and other trivialities, which have sucked all the air out of public discourse.

    Balkinization 2004

  • This reminds me of something in "Everything is Illuminated." selectric adj. in the mood to get struck by lightning, to stand in an open field and be singled out and drafted by the universe because of your innate potential to resolve a battle between faceless titans roaring in the sky, a task which doesn't require you to write a cover letter.

    MetaFilter xod 2010

  • IBM selectric typewriter from 1961 photo by: jeremy.

    TreeHugger 2008

  • (You're telling me that the right wingnuts who caught up Dan Rather on the available IBM selectric typefaces from the late 60's didn't notice that?)

    Born at the Crest of the Empire 2008

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