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PHOTOS DEVELOPING: Kiril emails us with more on shaking Polaroids:

Mr. 3000's exhortation to "shake it like a Polaroid picture" is a reference to the early days of self-developing film, when, true or not, everyone use to think that shaking the photo caused the image to appear faster. I'm not sure if this has a factual basis, but older people still often shake the pictures as soon as they come out. My grandmother used to say it was because the in first such cameras, photos would come out wet.

P.S. In a similar fahion, my grandmother, stung by unforunate experiences in the early 1980s, also insists that her television is complicated to program, although pushing a single button of her more modern machine causes it to program itself.

We're almost tempted to ask for other examples of old people interfacing with 'new' technology - I'm always puzzled at why they use VideoPlus to programme Coronation Street when it's on at the same time every bloody week....