For some reason, that smell is one of my favorite memories from my early school years. I really liked it.

That combined with the magic of "Wow! Copies?!"

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[2]: I just wanted to add the most unnecessary footnote formatting possible as a kindness, so yours would no longer hold the crown as worst

That's clever, but:

I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing.

And I took that to heart, because I don't want my words to be perplexing. I instead want them to be clear and easily understood.

In my corner of the world, I haven't held a mimeographed document in my hands for ~35 years. I found it reasonable to assume that a non-zero amount of people here might find the term to be unfamiliar.

So I provided definition of the term on the basis that it may be unknown to some readers, and that more information is better than inadequate information.

In this instance I would have preferred to use hyperlinked text for visual brevity, but that's not a thing on HN. The normal and accepted style on HN consists instead of using footnotes.

And at this point, generating footnotes is nearly entirely muscle memory for me. So a footnote (with a URL) was included.

Thank you for your attention on this matter, fsckboy. I'm pleased to discover that you've found my footnote to be so unusually compelling.