taoish ,
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Does anyone else remember this toy? (1970s, maybe 80s). When you lift the plastic sheet, it erases your writing.

Turns out that ancient Romans used something very similar (wax tablets for erasable writing). Some say that the word verse (versus) comes from the stylus "turning" in the wax.

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