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<!--quoteo(post=496240:date=Jan 30 2008, 05:46 AM:name=Ink Stained Wretch)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ink Stained Wretch @ Jan 30 2008, 05:46 AM) 496240[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Thanks for the cross cultural tour. Unfortunate that the trend towards throw-away writing instruments is so thoroughly entrenched now that it's pretty much penetrated to the entire world.

 

I wonder when the political equivalent of those teachers will outlaw all fountain pens?! At that point FPN will become the underground headquarters of the rebel resistance!

 

And those Wing Suns look really nice, especially at that price!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src="https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/lticaptd.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ltcapd:" border="0" alt="lticaptd.gif" /> Actually they may not need to outlaw FPs at all. We old (and young) fogies will disappear into the sunset alongwith our FPs and mechanical watches... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/crybaby.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":crybaby:" border="0" alt="crybaby.gif" /> Technology's progress is not going to be stopped by us. In fact I predict even handwriting as such will become redundant, leave alone whether to use disposables or FPs. Digital fingerprint/retinal scans, voice, video and other computer technology and connectivity, etc. will leave us no need to write anything at all, perhaps 25 years from now.

 

 

For a response to that, I recommend Michael Sull's quote that is used by the World Handwriting Contest as the entry.

 

Enjoy,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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Ebay is world wide.

 

At the flea markets I've gone to in the last 5-6 months in Germany. One man had a Du Pont, and some 100 and 400n type old Pelikans, he wanted gold for. I ran into one pen, and that from some one I knew.

 

You can get every once in a while a Chinese pen, which I did.

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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