My People!

[ethernautrix]

girlieg33k - Yeah, sometimes I say "So City," as in "Very." But I've found that "South City" is confusing enough.

 

Ghost Plane - In England, they use rubbers to erase mistakes, not prevent them. (Oh man! I kill me!) Sorry.

 

Splicer - I just read about your mishap. The nib. ACK!

 

Just don't delve too far into the forums, you'll never get out.

 

Jim

 

Too late! This is like quicksand.

 

Fun quicksand.

 

Y'all are funny and smart and kind and helpful. I like this place a lot.

 

AndyK - I'm new to the forum, but I've worked my way through the discernment process. Step 1: Just buy the more expensive pen. It's the one you want. How's that? ("No settling!")

 

Cheers, all!

 

Lisa

 

 

 

 

 

[dcwaites]

Pen porn! Welcome, but be warned….

Pen porn! :puddle: How do I turn off the filter for it in Net Nanny?

[ethernautrix]

Ah, what have we here? A newbie? Turn around, Newbie, turn around now, while you have the chance. You’ll thank me, you will. Yes, I know, you think you’ve come home, don’t you? That we all speak your language, that watching a line go down wet and turn from shiny to dry is no less sensual than most of one’s lovers. Well stay if you must—and a hearty welcome if you do—but here’s a warning. It won’t be long until you need another pen, although there are a half dozen or more perfectly good ones in the drawer there by your knee. You’ll wind up like the rest of us, searching for that one true shade, that perfect blue, black, or blood red that speaks to your soul. And your addiction—yes, addiction!—will slowly morph from the accoutrements you love to this forum that you’ll keep revisiting, full of helpful people you'll like. Pen porn! Welcome, but be warned….

 

Oh honey, I'm just a newbie to this forum! I've been around pens my whole life. (Exaggerating slightly.) I've done the various inks and colors and figured out nibs and makes and what I'll always hold onto and what to pass on. I've got my eye on a Mont Blanc Semiramis -- one of these days (I've been saying for a few years) -- cos is that not the most beautiful pen? Frikken gorgeous.

 

But yes, to read what others say about choosing between inks and papers and nibs and all that -- it's like all my thoughts made... (legible? visible? nearly tangible?) manifest outside of my own head. That's new. And I love it!

 

Thanks for the warning, though. It's too late to turn away from here. I'm already stuck! (And I am so not a joiner! So weird!)

 

 

[Titivillus]

I found this place a coupla days ago via a google search for the Visconti Travelling Ink Pot, and I have to say after a preliminary look-around, what a relief not to have these conversations with myself (about ink, ink color, permanence, nib variations, ink flow, adjustments, paper, paper grain, bleed, feathering, letting others use your fountain pen or preventing them from using your fountain pen (!)). All this time... people like me... you all were here.

 

How cool is that?

 

Way.

 

Hi. My name is Lisa, and I'm a pen nut aficionado.

 

Yes it's amazing what details people can discuss about writing

 

 

Welcome !

 

Kurt

[Lifesaver]

Welcome to FPN, Lisa. It sounds like you're going to be another nice addition here.

[sandeep108]

Hello and welcome. I am sure you will like it here. It has become one of my favourite forums.

[I am not a number]

Be mindful though that pen-related discussions and the veneer of "etiquette" around them often hangs by a thread. Example: IANAN offering up the visual of his Thursday podium dancing at a fetish club, in reference to black hard rubber. :blink:

 

so

 

not

 

cool

You know the procedure, report the post to a moderator as being offensive/uncool/an incitement to terrorism/a biohazard/whatever...

 

Contextual edit: As the unit Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare instructor on my last squadron I have probably spent more time wearing a black rubber outfit than most on these boards. It sort of hangs around in the sub-conscious...

Edited February 8, 2008 by I am not a number

[rroossinck]

Okay...not to derail this enchanting discussion of hard rubber fetishes and other such rarities...

 

But what's in your stable, writers-wise? Got a few favorites?

 

(Welcome, by the way...)

[Splicer]

I found this place a coupla days ago via a google search for the Visconti Travelling Ink Pot

 

FYI, Stylo has those, in case you haven't found one.

[CharlieB]

I told some people at work that I spend time on a forum devoted to Black Hard Rubber. They now think that my life is slightly more glamorous than the actuality of existence as a born-again civilian.

 

I have the opposite problem. Every time (once every week or so around these parts) I see a thread named "Dating a Parker" and am tempted to earnestly reply that it helps to ask Miss Parker for her phone number.

 

Believe it or not, one of my college fraternity brothers actually did "date a Parker". She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, the traditional sorority of the women in the Parker family (yes, THAT Parker family -- the ones who owned the pen company!). Parker supposedly honored the family connection to the sorority by using the Greek letter Phi on the clips of the early Jotters.

 

I don't understand the reference to black hard rubber. Are we talking about tractor tires?

 

Lisa: Welcome to the land of obsessive behavior. Be sure to tell us about your favorite pens and inks. And, yes, I've been in South City.

Edited February 8, 2008 by CharlieB

[playpen]

Hi Lisa and welcome to FPN from New Yawk City!

[Deirdre]

Contextual edit: As the unit Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare instructor on my last squadron I have probably spent more time wearing a black rubber outfit than most on these boards. It sort of hangs around in the sub-conscious...

So are you or are you not a fan of hard rubber (especially black hard rubber) pens? :roflmho:

[Ghost Plane]

Oh help! I just had to clean my long suffering monitor again.

 

Tell us about your pens before I have to moderate myself!

[Aslan]

Lisa, Welcome. From reading these posts, I think you'll fit in nicely with this crowd. Besides, it beats talking to yourself.

 

John

[ethernautrix]

Lisa, Welcome. From reading these posts, I think you'll fit in nicely with this crowd. Besides, it beats talking to yourself.

 

John

 

Actually, it still is like talking to myself, only now I'm more charming and friendly. With more pens.

 

SO MANY MORE VOICES!

 

[ethernautrix]

Be mindful though that pen-related discussions and the veneer of "etiquette" around them often hangs by a thread. Example: IANAN offering up the visual of his Thursday podium dancing at a fetish club, in reference to black hard rubber. :blink:

 

so

 

not

 

cool

You know the procedure, report the post to a moderator as being offensive/uncool/an incitement to terrorism/a biohazard/whatever...

 

Contextual edit: As the unit Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare instructor on my last squadron I have probably spent more time wearing a black rubber outfit than most on these boards. It sort of hangs around in the sub-conscious...

 

Selective reading: I saw that as "so so cool," because, duh, why wouldn't it be?

 

I have a black rubber outfit hanging in my closet, too. It's a latex cocktail dress. Very Jackie O. My.

[ethernautrix]

Tell us about your pens before I have to moderate myself!

I have to get more work done today (blush, blush), but the three pens I have strapped to my body (like a tiny purse, you know, over the shoulder) today are posted in my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethernautrix/...65660402/detail.

 

What's that saying about moderation? Everything in moderation... even moderation.

[ethernautrix]

And the rest of you voices, thanks for the welcoming party!

 

Hee!

[Kalessin]

Welcome to FPN!

 

Glad to see you're fitting right in! Now the challenge is to try to keep up...

 

Edited February 8, 2008 by Kalessin

[Ghost Plane]

Pretty. I see you have a black and metal thing going on...