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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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simple@lemm.ee
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I was learning Gregg Shorthand at some point just for the fun of it and every time I brought it up people had no idea what I was on about.

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OldFartPhil@lemm.ee
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I’m old enough to remember when shorthand was a required course for women in secretarial schools. I always though it was black magic and very cool.

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simple@lemm.ee
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Wow. How old are you?

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OldFartPhil@lemm.ee
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In my 60’s. According to Internet sources, shorthand was taught in schools until the 1990’s. It’s likely that shorthand use declined as PCs became common in offices.

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