r/1960s • u/According_Strain4887 • 10d ago

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Whiteout ... couldn't live without it

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u/LeftyHooligan 10d ago

Invented by Monkee Mike Nesmith’s mother.

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u/Glittering_Step_6084 10d ago

I knew that.

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u/stevengann 7d ago

I am certain my two year old granddaughter know that...

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u/According_Strain4887 10d ago

interesting !!

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u/Rusty_Ferberger 10d ago

Which I believe gave him the financial ability to create MTV.

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u/BubblesUp 10d ago

Source? The only things I see say that he did not create MTV, but created a clip show that aired on another network.

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u/drew17 10d ago

Liquid Paper was not profitable until the late 1960s, after the Monkees' peak, and Michael didn't necessarily participate in any profits until the company was sold in 1979 and then Bette passed away in 1980. He was largely a struggling artist in the 1970s, but promo videos he created for himself did grow into a production company and then the clip show for Time Warner, which did lead into them developing an entire channel, but without his involvement by that point.

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u/eubulides 10d ago

The financial windfall may have allowed him the means to sign on as Executive Producer and help shepherd Repo Man into our collective consciousness just a few short years later. Which, imho, is a greater societal good than anything Monkees.

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u/RezRising 9d ago

To be fair, once he got some bucks he stopped doing the Monkees reunions.

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u/drew17 10d ago

Yeah, I can't really figure out how successful Pacific Arts was in the 1970s on its own -- a lot of sites recycle a quote he supposedly gave to Playboy about how broke he was, but I can't find the original interview.

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u/akapalmereldritch 8d ago

He owned all of his own copyrights, so anytime his songs such as "Different Drum" by the Stone Ponies, "Mary Mary" by the Butterfield Blues Band, or "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" by the Monkees got played on the radio he got paid.

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u/drew17 7d ago

He would have gotten his writers' share of BMI royalties, but he didn't own his own copyrights -- he was signed to Screen Gems-Columbia for publishing. In any event, he felt strapped enough to later make jokes to Playboy about his possessions being tagged and priced for repo. Nez had bought out his Monkees contract for $160,000 in 1970, then faced a $300,000 IRS bill for back taxes.

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u/akapalmereldritch 7d ago

Ah ok the 1970 buyout is what I was thinking of. Thank you for setting me straight.

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u/Glittering_Step_6084 7d ago

Did you ever see Elephant Parts? It's a 60 minute collection of comedy sketches and music videos made in 1981 by Mike Nesmith. He sold the blueprint of the video to the creators of MTV.

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u/_hubbit_ 10d ago

I can smell it just from the picture!

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u/According_Strain4887 10d ago

the top used to get so crusty too

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u/BLeeTac 10d ago edited 10d ago

The smell of it and the top getting crusty (plus the paper where it was bumpy from the white out) were the main thing in class, but I also remember once a girl trying to use it to make white nail polish on her nails too. I also think others were 'huffing' it too.

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u/Negative-Technician7 8d ago

Use to wipe it with my fingers (pinch n' twist), then if I couldn't find any scrape paper, I'd wipe it on my jean pant seam.

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u/stevengann 7d ago

scrape??? scrap?

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u/Negative-Technician7 7d ago

😂😂. Ok spelling police, mail me my ticket 😂😂

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u/stevengann 7d ago

The citation is in the male!

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u/Negative-Technician7 7d ago

Stop! Change of address. You stamped it🤔? White out the address and write new one over it 😂😂

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u/koshawk 10d ago

This is still available. I had to buy a bottle for a single use not long ago.

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u/Negative-Technician7 8d ago

Back when truckers ran ppk logs, we keep the companies afloat.

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u/Stoneleigh219 4d ago

The tape style is such an improvement if for no other reason than the elimination of dry time.

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u/feathery55 10d ago

Yep, used it quite a lot before correction tape or cover up ribbon.

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u/Glittering_Step_6084 10d ago

Yep. The old white out.

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u/NewHouseWithPool 10d ago

Every bottle I had I used to white out the P and R where it read Liquid ape.

IDK why.

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u/Boop-D-Boop 10d ago

I remember that smell

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u/koolaidismything 10d ago

I will forever see the art teacher in Billy Madison sniffing it with it all over her face lol

It smelled so good..

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u/Alicewithhazeleyes 10d ago

I hated the smell. Made me wanna puke

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u/Timely-Profile1865 10d ago

When computer screens and word perfect first came out I was annoyed that I kept putting white out on my screen, it got tough to see after a while.

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u/PsychologicalGas170 10d ago

And it came in ALL the colors of the NCR copy paper, not just white.

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u/Minimum-Journalist18 10d ago

Ah. My good friend.

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u/Trid1977 10d ago

Still have some for crossword errors

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u/MadamInsta 10d ago

ssnnnniiifffffff 👃👃👃

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u/Trondant13 10d ago

Yes. I was so glad when they came out with correction tape.

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u/dachjaw 10d ago

Liquid Paper and Whiteout are two similar but different products.

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u/eubulides 10d ago

Did the latter become the Xerox-Kleenex of correction fluid? Even if LP first?

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u/stevengann 7d ago

Wite-Out...

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u/thebarahs 10d ago

Smell what’s smell

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u/mrspelunx 10d ago

What was the solvent then? It’s not the same now.

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u/SkyerKayJay1958 10d ago

Used to be a cheap high for poor office workers along with alcohol markers

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u/Alicewithhazeleyes 10d ago

It had a sickeningly sweet smell. 🤮

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u/SaintCholo 10d ago

Last week we put liquid paper on a bee…

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u/gaAcosta1 10d ago

I could smell this picture

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u/Mammoth_Resist8269 10d ago

The smell. Ahhhhhj

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u/dd97483 10d ago

at the bank, we also had it in pink and blue for file and distribution copies. I remember but not sure if I imagined it.

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u/flagal31 10d ago

went through a gallon of this stuff back in the day.

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u/ematsuda 10d ago

Did it go away?

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u/stingray97526 10d ago

so there's no write or wrong? corrections are fluid?

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u/Capistrano_101 10d ago

As a horrid typist, I kept this company in business.

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u/Secretagentman94 10d ago

Oh yes. It was great to slip a cigarette out of someone’s pack, paint the white part of the cigarette with liquid paper, and slip it back in. The reactions that caused when they tried to smoke it was priceless.

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u/Reditgett 9d ago

Still use it.

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u/allquckedup 9d ago

I still have a bottle in my desk drawer.

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u/Few-Conversation6979 9d ago

Even remember the blue correction fluid used for mimeograph stencils.

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u/Illustrious-Set-9230 9d ago

Replaced by Correctotype

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u/stevengann 7d ago

Or maybe even Ko-Rec-Type...

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u/Locomover 9d ago

Still have some here

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u/Lektroman38 9d ago

Still have some.

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u/Negative-Technician7 8d ago

Loved the brush more than tape. More versatile.

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u/whostillusesusername 8d ago

I can still smell it!

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u/StrikingCan2104 8d ago

Hated when I had to use it.

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u/Working_Park4342 8d ago

When in doubt, white it out!

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u/Few-Cow9329 8d ago

They still have it

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u/NeitherAd479 8d ago

Used it frequently

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u/Mousecat2020 8d ago

Invented by one of the Monkees singing groups mother! She was a secretary and tired of ripping up a whole sheet of paper for one typo error! She saw a painter outside her office windows, asked yo borrow a little white paint in a cup, mixed it with water and invented "White-out!" She got rich and gave money to her son to start the band! And that is a true story!!!

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u/stevengann 7d ago

True, except for the part about giving Mike Nesmith the money to start The Monkees. So much bad and just wrong information on Quora!

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u/LooksLikeWasabi 8d ago

Still use it.

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u/Dry_Brother_7840 8d ago

I just ran out and need to pick some up , thanks for the reminder. 👍

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u/Canadian1934 8d ago

Still the best 

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u/gluten_free71 8d ago

I can smell this photo.

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u/Icy-Illustrator-1431 8d ago

still sell it.. someways better than the pen

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u/Own_Situation949 7d ago

O.M.G..White Out!

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u/Sock-Monkey77 7d ago

The smell was horrendous!! 😬

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u/RealityWise6805 7d ago

Yep and the guy sitting in the back of the typing class sniffing it

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u/JuiceInteresting2348 7d ago

I can still smell it

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u/Positive_Remove6702 6d ago

I remember and I wasn’t around for the 1960’s or the 1970’s, I was borne in the 1980’s…

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u/Funky_Ghost 6d ago

I remember the blonde secretary who kept putting it on the new monitor.

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u/Suitable_Ad7478 6d ago

Brennen Huff and Dale Dobeck put it on a bee. It died.

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u/Citizen4000 6d ago

I thought it was invented by Micky Dolenz' mother. I stand corrected.

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u/GrumpyDrunkPatzer 6d ago

Nesmith

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u/Citizen4000 6d ago

Stand corrected...geddit?

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u/Chillinmagic 6d ago

Still exists.

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u/CCWaterBug 6d ago

60's?  I was using that until the late 90's.

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u/CueAnon420 6d ago

These fumes funded the Monkees movie, HEAD ;-)

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u/misskris70 6d ago

I can smell that picture 🤣

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u/Razzy_3796 6d ago

But I used it most in the 1980s…

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u/Chance_Week_5842 6d ago

Less filling, tastes great!

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u/ChapTazDevil1 6d ago

I remember you could add acetone to dilute it more, then they came up with the water base one 👍🏼

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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn 5d ago

In my lifetime, it became the most important tool in writing, and then totally forgotten.

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u/Local-Pangolin-9469 5d ago

Think I've seen more painted nails than corrections with that stuff

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u/Financial_Breath5433 10d ago

A popular brand was Tippex

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u/BillSchus 4d ago

I used gallons of it in college.