Bet ya didn’t know I was multilingual, didjya? During my frequent trips to The Dark Continent on Safari with world famous explorer, adventurer, novelist and Man About Town - WL Emery - I learnt to speak all the languages the lower order primates used. When I was diving into shark filled waters with his expendable sons - Phillipe and Falco - I learnt to speak The Coward’s tongue from Jacques Clouseau himself! But there I go… name dropping again. Long story short… that’s fwench for “keep it”.
Not many people know this but the Calypso was a fwench garbage scow. I’ve admonished WL constantly about the shabby people he chums around with… but that guy will drink with anyone!
But I digress. One day I was going to buy a fancy fountain pen for Big Bro’s hoity toity wife and I went into a fancy stationary store. They had fountain pens costing $400.00!!! I nearly fell over - and that was back in the 90’s before our faggot faced swine minister turned the Canadian dollar into a peso!
Back when I still did pens and had to forge WL’s signature for liquor store receipts the nicest pens I could find were these guys:
I threw every last beshitted Bic in my possession in the garbage and went with these guys. Ya buy a pack of them for $10.00. When it was warm out Bics blew up in my pockets. When it was cold - they froze. These guys did too but not as badly. I’ll say it again for the tards in the cheap seats!
The best writing implement developed by man is the Staedtler 2mm mechanical pencil. They’re still about $15.00 ~ $20.00 bucks, they write like a dream, and the biggest problem you’ll have is people wanting to walk away with them.
Back when I made my living with a pencil, I started with those and had a heavy desk sharpener that you could use with one hand. Then I progressed to the Pentel .05 mm pencil. Also have .07 and .09 mm with no need for a sharpener. I still have them all nearly 40 years later.
ReplyDeleteYep, switched to those about 8 years ago, stockpiled a few dozen.
ReplyDeleteI used to love the .04mm pentels in my junior high years, so I could write too small for the "adults" to read. That strategy is now bankrupt for obvious reasons.
Well, believe it or else...
ReplyDeleteI started collecting fountain pens some years back. One fountain pen I found was previously owned by my great grandfather. A good friend of mine cleaned and refurbished it, and now it writes better than I do. I own a Montblanc which I bought at a pen show from a vendor who needed a sale and didn't want to carry it out. Okay, he needed a sale. I also own a Parker like the one shown above, complete with box and instructions.
Enough. I'm fashionably late for Happy Hour, and Pip Squeak the cat is complaining that his dinner is late.
You keep talking about this, I'ma gonna have to go out to the garage and dig around for several hours to find my drafting set from 40 years ago. I know there were several staedtler pencils in there. Probably still got usable lead in them.
ReplyDeleteI still have my drafting table, when work went to pure autocad the boss was tossing the tables out as no one wanted one. Its in my shop, but i'll admit I haven't seen it in years as its covered in things I hope to get time to fix someday.
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Fountain pens are still popular and affordable in oriental countries, so with sites like amazon, affordable fountain pens are easier to get now than they were in the 90s. These days, since I tend to lose them, I mostly use disposable Pilot Varsity fountain pens, which can be shipped from Japan. The Chinese knock-offs also aren't bad.
ReplyDeleteLook up Pica pencils and lead (black, white, yellow, green, blue are available) for your construction projects.
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