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I Took My M800 To The Beach

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My heart was in my throat reading that title... A thousand horrors passed through my mind.

 

Did the salt water corrode the gold plating? Did sand get in the piston? Was the feed clogged by plankton? Did a pelican get confused and try to mate with the pen?

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Actually, it was a starfish who identified as a pelican. He was already confused.

Rationalizing pen and ink purchases since 1967.

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Do I detect a faint shadow on the driftwood? However, I imagine no sunscreen was necessary on a February day in Canada on either coast. Nice photographs!

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Very nice pictures.

Folks have to fly in for what you have in your 'back yard'. Be happy.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Love, LOVE these pictures! I love the beach in February, I love a hardy pen like the M800, and I think we should start a new thread of pictures of pens taken along on walks, hikes, and other encounters with nature!

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

– Lin Yu-T'ang

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I didn't expect any horror story.

 

Nice pictures! You're very lucky to live in such a nice place.

And we having a blizzard around here...

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Well I thought the title was the beginning of a joke! Something like: "A Pelikan, a Montblanc and a Lamy walk into a bar..." ;)

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Well I thought the title was the beginning of a joke! Something like: "A Pelikan, a Montblanc and a Lamy walk into a bar..." ;)

 

The barman asks the Pelican "who's the broad?"

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Some nice pics. Mine "survived" a trip up the Etna craters in Sicily the previous summer and I have no regrets.

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The barman asks the Pelican "who's the broad?"

 

 

I see what you did there.

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Tough birds them there Pelikans, my green 800 is my favourite at the moment.

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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. - Richard Rohr

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Well I thought the title was the beginning of a joke! Something like: "A Pelikan, a Montblanc and a Lamy walk into a bar..." ;)

 

The barman asks the Pelican "who's the broad?"

 

The Montblanc replied "I'm Fine, and the Lamy is German, not Italic" and Stubbed his toe on the foot-rail. They started drinking and they were all Pistons by the end of the evening.

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