From: sweller on
The Older Gentleman wrote:

> > AOL and a Parker it gets occasionally used in.
>
> I use a proper fountain pen every day, for just about everything.

So do I and I'm an oik in these matters. My writing looks like a spastic
spider on rohypnol.


> As with WUN, ball-points were banned at school for all handwriting work
> and I never lost the habit of using a 'proper' pen.

It was the same at my school and I'm younger than the pair of you.

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Simon
From: sweller on
The Older Gentleman wrote:

> You do not see the innate beauty of flowing cursive script on a nicely
> printed cheque, do you?

No because it means going to the post office/bank to pay the fucker in.

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Simon
From: sweller on
Pip Luscher wrote:

> > "Oo don't you hold the pen oddly." I have heard it a million times
>
> So you're one of thos weirdies that kind of hooks their hand round the
> pen? I did wonder why on earth people did that because on the face of
> it, you're more likely to smudge previous writing.

There are a lot more of us than you think - and I manage it without
smudging.

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Simon
From: sweller on
The Older Gentleman wrote:

> think just red and blue these days.

I use Blue Black - readily available in Smiths.

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From: The Older Gentleman on
sweller <sweller(a)mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
> > think just red and blue these days.
>
> I use Blue Black - readily available in Smiths.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten that one.


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