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Cake day: August 8th, 2025

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  • One place I worked at was my 3rd or 4th print shop. Years ago, to save money on production costs, we would have to “gum the plates”. This involved cleaning and then “gumming” sets of used plates so they could be reused later. Once while at the plated gumming station I was gumming a set of six plates we had used to print a 6-color job. I was a helper on the six-color, but two color presses only had one man crews. One guy pipes up and tells me: “Hey, new guys have to gum all our plates.”

    “Yeah? Bite me!”

    “No, really!” this dickhead said.

    “No, really!” I answered while grabbing my crotch in the universal gesture of disrespect.