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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
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Banging out
- ... that upon passing their apprenticeships British printers might be doused in ink and paper shavings and paraded through the streets? See this 2012 article on the practice continuing into modern times: Barnes, Becky (11 February 2013). "Teenager treated to "banging out" celebration after completing apprenticeship". BerkshireLive. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ALT1:... that historically, retiring newspapermen would be banged out, walking through the print room to a slow beat made by printers hitting hammers against their desks? "There used to be a tradition in Fleet Street newspapers called "banging out". It involved an employee, on the day he retired after a life-time's stalwart service to his chosen rag, being walked by his colleagues through the presses in the print room. As he wandered towards his rendezvous with a carriage clock, the printers serenaded him by whacking the metal benches with their hammers, beating out a ceremonial slow-march to mark his departure." from: "It's Friday, so where's the leaving do?". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 09:57, 30 December 2020 (UTC).
