Do you "like" a certain pen because a greater person had used it?

[I am not a number]

Someone greater than me?

 

IANAN goes for a lie down under a table with a damp towel over his head...

[Deirdre]

Of course I do. Ever since I heard Girls Aloud are fans of the Lamy ABC, that's all I'll use...

I'm not sure if I should give you two points for making me laugh or subtract three for even knowing who Girls Aloud are....

They are, of course, the High Priestesses of The New Religion of Musical Integrity Through the Medium of Clothes. Spangly clothes.

Makes note to subtract five points, not three.

 

What's-her-name from Garbage had a shoe fetish, but the band was actually good....

[Deirdre]

Someone greater than me?

 

IANAN goes for a lie down under a table with a damp towel over his head...

Because of you, I've taken a liking for artistic splatters of ink as a clothing statement.

 

Pens? Not so much.

[ToasterPastry]

Of course I do. Ever since I heard Girls Aloud are fans of the Lamy ABC, that's all I'll use...

I'm not sure if I should give you two points for making me laugh or subtract three for even knowing who Girls Aloud are....

 

 

They are, of course, the High Priestesses of The New Religion of Musical Integrity Through the Medium of Clothes. Spangly clothes.

 

 

Is this true? Because if it is, I'm switching from my Spider Man fountain pen.

[Scrybe]

Of course I do. Ever since I heard Girls Aloud are fans of the Lamy ABC, that's all I'll use...

I'm not sure if I should give you two points for making me laugh or subtract three for even knowing who Girls Aloud are....

 

 

They are, of course, the High Priestesses of The New Religion of Musical Integrity Through the Medium of Clothes. Spangly clothes.

 

 

Is this true? Because if it is, I'm switching from my Spider Man fountain pen.

 

 

Entirely true, although I must clarify that devotees of The New Religion consider Spangly Clothes an article of personal faith, rather than a matter of belief which might be submitted to proof of its truth-value.

 

That Girls Aloud epitomize musical integrity is most certainly a matter of faith in the highest degree.

 

And, in the spirit of The High Church of Holy X Factor, may I say Hallelujah!

Edited January 2, 2009 by Scrybe

[Scrybe]

I am also considering a Parker 51 Flighter, solely on the basis that Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck both used them.

 

 

 

I hear they make the most exquisite slides for playing some Delta Blues with...

Edited January 2, 2009 by Scrybe

[Deirdre]

I am also considering a Parker 51 Flighter, solely on the basis that Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck both used them.

You just made me realize we hadn't heard from LedZepGirl in quite a while....

[Scrybe]

I am also considering a Parker 51 Flighter, solely on the basis that Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck both used them.

You just made me realize we hadn't heard from LedZepGirl in quite a while....

 

I did almost add Jimmy Page to that list, which would have completed The Holy Triumvirate of Musical Integrity Through the Medium of Actual Musical Talent which, as any well qualified theological scholar knows, is a small and subversive offshoot of The True Religion of Popular Music in the 20th Century, and is largely considered a rather heretical denomination.

[Deirdre]

I am also considering a Parker 51 Flighter, solely on the basis that Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck both used them.

You just made me realize we hadn't heard from LedZepGirl in quite a while....

 

I did almost add Jimmy Page to that list, which would have completed The Holy Triumvirate of Musical Integrity Through the Medium of Actual Musical Talent which, as any well qualified theological scholar knows, is a small and subversive offshoot of The True Religion of Popular Music in the 20th Century, and is largely considered a rather heretical denomination.

I looked up LedZepGirl's profile, but she seems to have deleted the signature I was expecting as reference.

[Scrybe]

I am also considering a Parker 51 Flighter, solely on the basis that Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck both used them.

You just made me realize we hadn't heard from LedZepGirl in quite a while....

 

I did almost add Jimmy Page to that list, which would have completed The Holy Triumvirate of Musical Integrity Through the Medium of Actual Musical Talent which, as any well qualified theological scholar knows, is a small and subversive offshoot of The True Religion of Popular Music in the 20th Century, and is largely considered a rather heretical denomination.

I looked up LedZepGirl's profile, but she seems to have deleted the signature I was expecting as reference.

 

I have heard tell of that signature. It is truly legendary.

 

 

On another, slightly related note...

Jimmy Page was well known for using a violin bow to play his guitar with. I have tried this method but found that it ultimately proved unsatisfactory. The hair of small children (still attached to their young and supple heads) generally provides better tone when used on the nickel coated guitar strings than does even the finest quality horse hair. Of course, if we're going down the acoustic guitar bronze coated string route, geriatrics (if you can find one with a good supply of strand-like material) accentuate the tonal frequencies much more roundly.

[Mr Ink]

Ever since I heard Girls Aloud are fans of the Lamy ABC.....

 

Oh dear. I was going to get a Lamy ABC for my collection....now I'm having second thoughts.

[OldGriz]

I could care less.... I use a pen because I like the pen and how it writes.... who cares who might have used that type of pen in the past... Does MacArthur using a Duofold or Eisenhower using a Parker 51 make it a better pen?

Both great men, IMO, but it does make the pens they used any better than my use of them... just a whole lot more collectible if you ever found it.

 

Of course, there are always exceptions to every rule, My daughter wants a Parker 51 and a Vacumatic because I have one... In her heart a "greater person".....

I only wish I could always stand up to being what she sees in her heart.

 

BTW, she has neither at this point.... but I did give her an uninked Parker 21 Super FP/MP set for Christmas... it is currently filled with Diamine Imperial Purple

[wspohn]

Nope.

 

What a strange idea! :blink:

[Robert Hughes]

I once saw a picture of Charlie Manson with a Parker pen, and knew I had to have it.

[Lloyd]

I once saw a picture of Charlie Manson with a Parker pen, and knew I had to have it.

You want to own Charlie Manson using a Parker?

[Robert Hughes]

No, the picture, silly

[rogerb]

Unlike those who say they 'could care less' (what does that mean?), I have to say I could NOT care less .....

I don't know, or seek to know, who's used something I am thinking of buying.

(Unless it's someone I know whose opinion I might ask before buying)

[dmmcf]

If I were susceptible to that sort of influence, I probably wouldn't be using fountain pens.

[HelzBelz]

I'd like to say no. However, if I were to find out what type of fountain pen T. S. Eliot used (he must have used one, I imagine) I probably would want one. The exact one, preferably, although I'd settle for the same model and year. It's something I'm vaguely interested in finding out, but nothing I've read has mentioned it thus far.

[yachtsilverswan]

The hair of small children (still attached to their young and supple heads) generally provides better tone when used on the nickel coated guitar strings than does even the finest quality horse hair...

 

Finally, another use for small children beyond the practical suggestions of Jonathan Swift.

 

(skulks off to join IANAN under that table with a cool compress, disbelieving there are people better than me - dogs yes, people, no)