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I don't see how any preparation needs to be taken to stockpile nice paper and fountain pens against the zombie apocalypse. As soon as you watch a zombie film it becomes very clear that you won't be competing with them for that stuff: they're obviously the sort of people who use disposable biros out of choice, aren't they?

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Medieval pen and ink were made in minutes from farm waste and boiled trees. Paper though -- that was precious.

 

You can make paper out of cattail reeds, apparently. It doesn't look very nice but would serve.

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Chocolate and toilet paper will run out long before I run out of ink and fountain pens.

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

 

B. Russell

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Chocolate and toilet paper will run out long before I run out of ink and fountain pens.

 

:lticaptd: (I'm stock piling toilet paper - but don't even think about trying to raid my stock pile - it's well guarded.)

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Ruth, I put Noodlers X-Feather-X in an EF Lamy 2000, an EDC that writes on cheap paper often for work. Nice black black, early days but very encouraged after the first couple weeks.

 

The problem is that it's NOT a Lamy 2000 -- it's a Pilot Vanishing Point. Which means a Japanese EF -- not a German one....

 

I don’t believe in microwave ovens. I know they exist yet still I do not believe in them.

 

As we are talking fantasy I will tell you why. They are inter dimensional transporters - food is transported to another dimension, super heated there and returned. Beings of that dimension experience great mirth watching us burn our tongue as we refuse to wait six hours for the food to cool.

And they're probably STILL laughing themselves sick over my husband's former housemate cooking a steak in one for the first time... for ten *minutes*....

I believe it was described as ending up looking sort of like a charcoal briquette....

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I don't see how any preparation needs to be taken to stockpile nice paper and fountain pens against the zombie apocalypse. As soon as you watch a zombie film it becomes very clear that you won't be competing with them for that stuff: they're obviously the sort of people who use disposable biros out of choice, aren't they?

 

Well I could ask my husband's former office mate, the next time she comes east. I think she was an extra in Dawn of the Dead, which was at least partly filmed in the Monroeville Mall, which is a little under 20 miles from where I live....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I don't enjoy writing much, so I plan to not write any more. I would thus have a couple of hundred darts.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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Well, by the time the apocalypse comes, I will be long gone - either I have been raptured and home with Jesus, or I will have died and am with Jesus. So either way, it won’t matter to me.

"Today will be gone in less than 24 hours. When it is gone, it is gone. Be wise, but enjoy! - anonymous today

 

 

 

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It looks like those of us who have a good collection of fine steel nib pens will accel while the unfortunate who placed faith in soft gold broad (dull) nibs (me) will not fair so well. I can only assume I’ll meet my doom at the hands of a crazed Jinhao wielding survivalist who planned ahead. At that point my pens and paper will become the property of the Jinhaoist until they meet their fate at the hands of a prepper who invested heavily in tactical ballpoints and space pen refills. The ballpoints shall inherit the Earth! I read that someplace.

Someday the mountain might get em but the law never will.........

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I don't see how any preparation needs to be taken to stockpile nice paper and fountain pens against the zombie apocalypse. As soon as you watch a zombie film it becomes very clear that you won't be competing with them for that stuff: they're obviously the sort of people who use disposable biros out of choice, aren't they?

You're quite right, DP,... but what concerns me is I think sub-bluesy might be right... the ballpoints are gonna take over. :ninja:

 

:D

 

 

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Well,... I will be... home with Jesus,... So... it wont matter to me.

Good for you, DrP.,... that's the right attitude. :thumbup:

 

 

- Anthony :)

 

 

Typo.

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You're quite right, DP,... but what concerns me is I think sub-bluesy might be right... the ballpoints are gonna take over. :ninja:

 

:D

 

 

- Anthony

That is a very Zombiephobic stance.

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That is a very Zombiephobic stance.

What?... :unsure: ...who?... :unsure: ...me?..... a zombiphobe?? ... :huh:

 

Not true! Why some of my best friends are zombies. :)

 

 

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Well I could ask my husband's former office mate, the next time she comes east. I think she was an extra in Dawn of the Dead, which was at least partly filmed in the Monroeville Mall, which is a little under 20 miles from where I live....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Cool. That film's still one of the classics.

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What?... :unsure: ...who?... :unsure: ...me?..... a zombiphobe?? ... :huh:

 

Not true! Why some of my best friends are zombies. :)

 

 

- Anthony

We are pleased you say this earthling.

 

 

Forget the above.

I am pleased you say this

Amory

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I don't know why everyone is so afraid of zombies, they just want to be "friends with "brain"efits".......

 

Also I think a poll should be started asking how many of us have used the possibility of a zombie apocalypse as justification for the massive amounts of pens, inks, or paper we have already.....

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I think she was an extra in Dawn of the Dead, which was at least partly filmed in the Monroeville Mall, which is a little under 20 miles from where I live....

 

...which, from the couple of times I've been in the mall, is where I would expect to find zombies. I don't think that you would find it easy to discern which are customers and which are zombies, which could be a problem.

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