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There was a time in my working life that everything was signed in black ink, and yet all our actual work was carried out with a mechanical pencil.  NOT just any mechanical pencil, but one with red at one end and black 0.9mm lead at the other.  These were in fact, 'issued' to us a part of our 'tool box.  Has anyone else been a user of these:

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No, I've never had any writing instruments issued to me at / for work. And these are a little pricey for our office supply cabinet...

 

 

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2 hours ago, Darkman said:

No, I've never had any writing instruments issued to me at / for work. And these are a little pricey for our office supply cabinet...

 

 

 

It was many decades ago, long before computers allowed automation of many of our administrative tasks.

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What a cool pencil!

Intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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I have one of those Autopoints, among others with only one end.  It wasn't issued to me, and I don't end up using it that often, but it is rather cool.

"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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