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To: Willie Green
So, how many Sheaffer pens have YOU bought in the past decade?
5 posted on 03/30/2004 5:09:58 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: Poohbah
None, but their Scrip fountain pen ink is the best stuff out there.
6 posted on 03/30/2004 5:12:06 PM PST by July 4th (You need to click "Abstimmen")
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To: Poohbah
I don't use pens.

I don't use paper except for my shopping list at the market.

I gave up my second phone line last week because I got a cable modem.

Where I teach I'm one of the old fossils who still gives weekly paper quizzes to my college students. Most other profs do quizzes and assignments on line.

Pens? Please...

7 posted on 03/30/2004 5:15:21 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Poohbah
Bic is French???
10 posted on 03/30/2004 5:18:30 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Poohbah
I use only barrel draw fountain pens, the kind with the lever. My daughter uses the later fountain refillable cartridge type. Teachers just go ga-ga when you have writing skills and style uncommon to today's masses.

Technology is no substitution for style, artform, and passion for quality.

The buggy-whip thing is so over the top and cavalier. Ever see what a good whip runs these days? Sure, volume is down, but a good one runs over a hundred bucks. I just paid $1200 for a set of sheep shears.

Certain real tangible products of old do not fall into the obsolescence bin like buggy whip whippers so easily make you think.........They flourish quite nicely.

12 posted on 03/30/2004 5:33:12 PM PST by blackdog (I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
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