- Ball points - 1 Update
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Nov 07 10:14PM -0800 On 11/07/2016 04:35 PM, Michael Black wrote: > I remember being told to hold a new pen over a lit match, but now I > can't remember if that came from someone working in a stationary > store, or someone like my mother. I've done that with some success, but only if the ball was actual metal. Plastic, not so much. > I remember early Bic pens, like in the late sixties, they often > seemed pretty bad until you got them running. When I was in perhaps first grade we got BALL POINT PENS. Totally new technology. We had to put them back in the block of wood with holes for the pens when we were done. We also had real ink in the inkwells, and pens you had to dip. This was the late 40s, not the 30s. And we still got a better education than our kids or grandkids. > at all times, they now get to argue over what refills to use. > I need to find a pen that fits the Space Pen cartridge. The plastic > pen it came in broke. Gel pens rule. -- Cheers, Bev "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." --Ernst Jan Plugge |
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