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Sunday, 16 January 2005




00:13:38 EET @967

Menis nukq.





10:51:47 EET @410

Heräsin pari tuntia sitten.

Nyyssiryhmässä alt.collecting.pens-pencils on näköjään threadi siitä, miten huono idea on lainata täytekynää kenellekään. Syynä ei ole se, että se juuri sisäänajettu terä hioutuisi paperia vastan pilalle, vaan se, että tavan tallaajat eivät osaa käsitellä täytekynää oikein ja saattavat rikkoa sen. Sitäpaitsi jokin aika sitten heitin linkit pariin sivuun, jossa tuo täytekynän terän sisäänajaminen osoitetaan myytiksi.

Tässä eräs esimerkki tuosta threadista. Just nyt Gogle Groups ei tuota artikkelia näytä:

From: Roy G Biv <roy.g.biv@the.color.spectrum>
Subject: Loaning a Pen
Newsgroups: alt.collecting.pens-pencils
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:34:58 -0500
In-Reply-To: <E1Cpzqv-0001pl-7I@shell1.iglou.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0501152304210.9554@shell1>
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   On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 at 17:19:38 -0500, Charles Perry scribbled:
->NEVER loan a fountain pen to anyone!
 
   You betcha!!
  
->Sure enough, one tine was slightly higher than the other and both
->were spread apart some.  ... so I used my finger nails to try ad-
->justing the nib.  It now will write.
 
   You were lucky.  But a fountain pen doesn't need to be dropped to
be ruined by a non-F.P. person.  People who've never had a F.P. can
ruin one just by using it.  Back in my college days many decades ago
I *once* made the mistake of loaning one of my F.P.s -- a one-dollar,
popular-brand cartridge pen -- to some clown who forgot to bring a
pen with him to take notes with.  "Aaargh!  What is this thing?" he
groaned, but he proceeded to use it anyway.  When class was over and
I got my pen back, it was totally ruined.  I'm sure I cannabalized
all the other parts for spares, but the nib went into the trashcan.
It was completely wrecked: battered, bent, broken, busted.
 
   Even for a $1 cartridge pen like that one (equivalent to about $6
in today's money) the moral is: Never Loan A Fountain Pen!!
 
->Charles Perry P.E.
 
   "P.E." = Pen Enthusiast?!  
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