Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:31 pm
Hey, hey!ElfDude wrote:
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:12 am
Walkinghairball wrote:Woah........................ they got MIKE to come back?????
Finally?!?!?!?!?!?!
No-from an article:
With different Monkees citing different reasons, the group chose not to mark their 40th anniversary in 2006.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:36 am
I read somewhere where Mike or his folks invented "white-out"Walkinghairball wrote:Woah........................ they got MIKE to come back?????
Finally?!?!?!?!?!?!
correction fluid. Cha-CHING.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:22 am
His mother did.CygnusX1 wrote:I read somewhere where Mike or his folks invented "white-out"Walkinghairball wrote:Woah........................ they got MIKE to come back?????
Finally?!?!?!?!?!?!
correction fluid. Cha-CHING.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:36 am
Liquid Paper - Bette Nesmith Graham (1922-1980)
Bette Nesmith Graham used a kitchen blender to create liquid paper.
It was originally called "mistake out", the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a Dallas secretary and a single mother raising a son* on her own. Graham used her own kitchen blender to mix up her first batch of liquid paper or white out, a substance used to cover up mistakes made on paper.
Background - Bette Nesmith Graham
Bette Nesmith Graham never intended to be an inventor; she wanted to be an artist. However, shortly after World War II ended, she found herself divorced with a small child to support. She learned shorthand and typing and found employment as an executive secretary. An efficient employee who took pride in her work, Graham sought a better way to correct typing errors. She remembered that artists painted over their mistakes on canvas, so why couldn?t typists paint over their mistakes?
Invention of Liquid Paper
Bette Nesmith Graham put some tempera waterbased paint, colored to match the stationery she used, in a bottle and took her watercolor brush to the office.
She used this to correct her typing mistakes? her boss never noticed. Soon another secretary saw the new invention and asked for some of the correcting fluid. Graham found a green bottle at home, wrote "Mistake Out" on a label, and gave it to her friend. Soon all the secretaries in the building were asking for some, too.
Bette Nesmith Graham - The Mistake Out Company
In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham started the Mistake Out Company (later renamed Liquid Paper) from her North Dallas home. She turned her kitchen into a laboratory, mixing up an improved product with her electric mixer. Graham?s son, Michael Nesmith (later of The Monkees fame), and his friends filled bottles for her customers. Nevertheless, she made little money despite working nights and weekends to fill orders. One day an opportunity came in disguise. Graham made a mistake at work that she couldn?t correct, and her boss fired her. She now had time to devote to selling Liquid Paper, and business boomed.
Bette Nesmith Graham and Liquid Paper's Success
By 1967, it had grown into a million dollar business. In 1968, she moved into her own plant and corporate headquarters, automated operations, and had 19 employees. That year Bette Nesmith Graham sold one million bottles. In 1975, Liquid Paper moved into a 35,000-sq. ft., international headquarters building in Dallas. The plant had equipment that could produce 500 bottles a minute. In 1976, the Liquid Paper Corporation turned out 25 million bottles. Its net earnings were $1.5 million. The company spent $1 million a year on advertising, alone.
Bette Nesmith Graham believed money to be a tool, not a solution to a problem. She set up two foundations to help women find new ways to earn a living. Graham died in 1980, six months after selling her corporation for $47.5 million.
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With 50 million nanners, Mike probably has more adventurous things in mind than touring with the Monkees. He was so musically oppressed in the group. Not allowed to write songs for albums, etc. And when they finally did write an album, it wasn't very good, or at least not up to Boyce and Hart standards.
Bette Nesmith Graham used a kitchen blender to create liquid paper.
It was originally called "mistake out", the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a Dallas secretary and a single mother raising a son* on her own. Graham used her own kitchen blender to mix up her first batch of liquid paper or white out, a substance used to cover up mistakes made on paper.
Background - Bette Nesmith Graham
Bette Nesmith Graham never intended to be an inventor; she wanted to be an artist. However, shortly after World War II ended, she found herself divorced with a small child to support. She learned shorthand and typing and found employment as an executive secretary. An efficient employee who took pride in her work, Graham sought a better way to correct typing errors. She remembered that artists painted over their mistakes on canvas, so why couldn?t typists paint over their mistakes?
Invention of Liquid Paper
Bette Nesmith Graham put some tempera waterbased paint, colored to match the stationery she used, in a bottle and took her watercolor brush to the office.
She used this to correct her typing mistakes? her boss never noticed. Soon another secretary saw the new invention and asked for some of the correcting fluid. Graham found a green bottle at home, wrote "Mistake Out" on a label, and gave it to her friend. Soon all the secretaries in the building were asking for some, too.
Bette Nesmith Graham - The Mistake Out Company
In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham started the Mistake Out Company (later renamed Liquid Paper) from her North Dallas home. She turned her kitchen into a laboratory, mixing up an improved product with her electric mixer. Graham?s son, Michael Nesmith (later of The Monkees fame), and his friends filled bottles for her customers. Nevertheless, she made little money despite working nights and weekends to fill orders. One day an opportunity came in disguise. Graham made a mistake at work that she couldn?t correct, and her boss fired her. She now had time to devote to selling Liquid Paper, and business boomed.
Bette Nesmith Graham and Liquid Paper's Success
By 1967, it had grown into a million dollar business. In 1968, she moved into her own plant and corporate headquarters, automated operations, and had 19 employees. That year Bette Nesmith Graham sold one million bottles. In 1975, Liquid Paper moved into a 35,000-sq. ft., international headquarters building in Dallas. The plant had equipment that could produce 500 bottles a minute. In 1976, the Liquid Paper Corporation turned out 25 million bottles. Its net earnings were $1.5 million. The company spent $1 million a year on advertising, alone.
Bette Nesmith Graham believed money to be a tool, not a solution to a problem. She set up two foundations to help women find new ways to earn a living. Graham died in 1980, six months after selling her corporation for $47.5 million.
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With 50 million nanners, Mike probably has more adventurous things in mind than touring with the Monkees. He was so musically oppressed in the group. Not allowed to write songs for albums, etc. And when they finally did write an album, it wasn't very good, or at least not up to Boyce and Hart standards.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:45 am
...and snorted by high school students everywhereBig Blue Owl wrote:Liquid Paper - Bette Nesmith Graham (1922-1980)
Bette Nesmith Graham used a kitchen blender to create liquid paper.
It was originally called "mistake out", the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a Dallas secretary and a single mother raising a son* on her own. Graham used her own kitchen blender to mix up her first batch of liquid paper or white out, a substance used to cover up mistakes made on paper.
(I keed, I keed)
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:06 am
^^^
Wow....She died at 57 or 58...that's sad.
Wow....She died at 57 or 58...that's sad.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:35 am
Prolly from the fumes of the white out.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:09 am
oh SNAP!Walkinghairball wrote:Prolly from the fumes of the white out.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:44 am
Bette Nesmith died of a heart attack at the age of 56. Her only son, Michael, inherited half of his mother's $50+ million estate. The remainder financed the Council on Ideas, a think tank devoted to exploring world problems.
http://www.gihon.com/
http://www.gihon.com/
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:55 am
Maybe that's why he was the only Monkee never to endorse Carvin guitars. He was just too rich to be bothered with them.Big Blue Owl wrote: Michael, inherited half of his mother's $50+ million estate.
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:23 am
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:19 am
I usually try to keep it clean 'round here, but fuck Richard Simmons (and not in a nice way.)
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:19 pm
Well, he IS guilty of useless nonsense...Big Blue Owl wrote:I usually try to keep it clean 'round here, but fuck Richard Simmons (and not in a nice way.)
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:33 pm
Yeah, I was a bit harsh. Sorry, Richard. I'm sure you can relate to "moodiness." 