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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:42 AM
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Poll question: Bic or Paper-Mate?
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:46 AM
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1. Bics always skip on me.
Don't know why.
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:49 AM
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2. Waterman or Penguin
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:50 AM
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3. Bic
Paper-Mate is for losers. Jesus doesn't love you if you use Paper-Mate.

...

Don't question me. It says so in the Rule of St. Benedict
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:52 AM
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4. Papermate Flexgrip ultra, med.
just feels right...

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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:54 AM
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5. Remember when Bic's lasted forever?
and you would lose it before it quit writing? They even had an ad campaign about it. Sometime in the early 70's they either changed the point design or the ink and they became crap.

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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:05 AM
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8. I dunno, the ink in my Bic pen was so far down to the nub today ...
... that I couldn't even see it, and yet it kept on writing through an 8 hour shift. I couldn't believe it. It was still working at the end of the day.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:56 AM
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6. Am I the only person on earth . . .
who prefers fountain pens?
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 12:57 AM
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7. I've got a Mont Blanc...
but it would be a pain to have to fill and deal with.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:07 AM
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9. Does your Mont Blanc . . .
write smoothly? Or does it skip (drag) a bit? Mine is about 20 years old, and it takes cartridges. (I use Pentel cartridges rather than Mont Blanc, because they're less expensive.) I truly love the weight of a fountain pen in my hand.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:08 AM
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10. It writes really smooth...
Edited on Sat Jan-08-05 01:11 AM by Placebo
and I even buy the overpriced Mont Blanc ink for it. :)
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BlueCollar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:08 AM
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11. I'm a Parker man myself...
:-)
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:15 AM
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12. Bic. You can smuggle your drugs in them.
The papermate is too thin and some of the models don't open at all.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:17 AM
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13. This must be why my Dad is always stressed
He sells office supplies
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Flammable Materials Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 01:18 AM
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14. Take a look at the back end of a Bic pen:
"MADE IN U.S.A."

Works for me!
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