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Do you guys name your pens? Or am I the only one who creates whole storylines for each of them? Please tell.

A fountain pen a day keeps the ballpoints away!

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The Majestic One

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I only have one fountain pen right now, and I'm calling it Lamy. The next one will be called TWSBI.

"But it is the same with humanity as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep – into the evil." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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I was a teenager when I got my first fountain pen (a clear Sheaffer school pen) and, at the time, thought naming things was fun. (I know for sure that I had a lunchbox named Loolah Q., for instance.) I called my pen "Bob." :)

 

However, Bob eventually had the biscuit, and none of my current pens has a name.

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I don't currently but I have a friend who almost certainly would - she is super loopy. That said, it is kinda cool to think about the back story some pens have, imagine how exotic those stories would be if the protagonist / pen had a character.

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No. But I did name my camera :unsure: .

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

 

B. Russell

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Nope

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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They all have the same name -- "this'pen".

 

This'pen is going in the sunglasses pouch, and this'pen is going inside my pen case, and this'pen is staying on the computer keyboard.

Visconti Homo Sapiens; Lamy 2000; Unicomp Endurapro keyboard.

 

Free your mind -- go write

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I sometimes give them descriptive epithets.

 

  • She who dances smoothly upon the page.
  • My fountain runs dry.
  • Spewer of ink.
  • Ferschlugginer piece of &%!!#!!

Er, I mean, no I don't.

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

 

- Benjamin Franklin

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Nope - but I used to name my mobile phones back in the good old days when they still had individual designs; my Ericsson 520 was called Jar-Jar Binks for one. I have stopped doing that as all mobile phones (at least smartphones) more or less all look the same now.

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No.

Pelikan 140 EF | Pelikan 140 OBB | Pelikan M205 0.4mm stub | Pilot Custom Heritage 912 PO | Pilot Metropolitan M | TWSBI 580 EF | Waterman 52 1/2v

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I sometimes give them descriptive epithets.

 

  • She who dances smoothly upon the page.
  • My fountain runs dry.
  • Spewer of ink.
  • Ferschlugginer piece of &%!!#!!

 

My only pen with a regular name of sorts earned it in exactly this way - "Problem Child".

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Yes.

 

Justus95 is: The Paladin. (The clip and the nib looks like a sword)

VP is: The Knight (The metal nib hood and the clip looks like a knight with a sword. )

C742 with PO is: The Conquer. (As this nib can conquer all papers.)

 

The justus95 has the name of champion also.

 

The 18k Elite is called Spectre because of the small size. It's friend is the Pilot Birdie which I named banshee.

#Nope

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I name my dogs because when they're wandering off I can can them back. Applying that strategy with a pen would be an exercise in futility.

 

James

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