For tomorrow is National Ballpoint Pen Day.
😜
For tomorrow is National Ballpoint Pen Day.
😜
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
The horror! 😱
Sailor Kenshin (June 9th, 2022)
Confession, whoever I find a ballpoint with a removal screw on cap, such as the Sheaffer no nonesense bp I put it to one side to keep, I know other people, Fp people at that, who collect certain Sheaffer ball points, I think he calls them clickies, might be wrong. The clip controls the point retraction.
Also another man who has written books on fountain pens but only uses ball points.
Funny world.
Last edited by RobJohnson; June 9th, 2022 at 11:53 AM.
AzJon (June 10th, 2022)
Sheaffer called that the "reminder" clip.
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AzJon (June 10th, 2022), RobJohnson (June 9th, 2022), titrisol (June 9th, 2022)
To remind you that the point was still exposed as it clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket, makes sense.
The best ideas are all from the past.
titrisol (June 9th, 2022)
LoL! you brought me all the way back to the time when those sheaffers were the coolest thing in school!!!
I think it was 4th or 5th grade (1978-9) when a couple of people had them and I "borrowed" my dad's
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RobJohnson (June 9th, 2022)
I remember when I first used B.Point I did not like them. I was told they make your hand writing bad.
So I was avoiding to use them whenever I could. But me writing was very average and legible.
A couple of my go-to ballpoints:
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catbert (June 10th, 2022), CrayonAngelss (June 13th, 2022), RobJohnson (June 9th, 2022), Sailor Kenshin (June 10th, 2022)
Ballpoints? Sure ...
A Parker Jotter "Princess" from the 1960s.
catbert (June 10th, 2022), CrayonAngelss (June 13th, 2022), Sailor Kenshin (June 10th, 2022)
I may have mentioned this story before years ago but when I first went to senior school I wasn't made aware that we had to write only with fountain pens because I had been ending a holiday as school started. My father was a coal miner who could only have a specific holiday week so it wasn't like we had a choice.
Therefore on that first evening of my first school day I wrote out my French homework with ballpoint pen and handed it in next morning.
On the very next French lesson the first thing the French teacher did was to call out my name and make me stand up while she tore me off a strip for writing my homework with a ballpoint pen then told me to do it again properly and never write in my books in ballpoint again. I definitely remembered..
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Yazeh (June 10th, 2022)
A couple of my go to ballpoints:
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Jon Szanto (June 10th, 2022), titrisol (June 11th, 2022)
Mine are usually from the dollar store. In bright colors!
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
Regards, Chrissy | My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
Yazeh (June 10th, 2022)
I know I've posted this before, but I'm just not a ballpoint guy (to the point where I have a fave or goto pen...):
This was one of my dad's Jotters, which I found in his workshop when cleaning up after he passed. It is posed with a collage photo I did of he and I and my grandfather. He was not a big writer, but he had a great appreciation for a tool that had been well-designed and implemented. I wish I could still talk with him.
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Chrissy (June 11th, 2022), Jon Szanto (June 10th, 2022)
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Chrissy (June 11th, 2022), dneal (June 13th, 2022), Sailor Kenshin (June 11th, 2022), titrisol (June 11th, 2022), Yazeh (June 10th, 2022)
Dad's suspenders were missing in that photo....
Jon Szanto (June 10th, 2022)
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