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Athel Cornish-Bowden  wrote:
> On 2024-04-02 20:23:53 +0000, Ross Clark said:
>
>> Sorry, I got behind. Too late for you to celebrate.
>>
>> (1) I like pencils. I rejoice when I find one, among the heaps of dead
>> and dying ballpoint pens,
>
> I'm the reverse. We have masses of pencils that I never want to use,
> but if I want a ballpoint that works I can't find one. From time to
> time I buy a set of four at the supermarket and within a short time
> they all go wherever ballpoints go. I have a fountain pen that I used
> during the early days of Covid, but I haven't used it for a long time
> -- getting too old, 81 today.

That's altogether too many years for a pen to still be usable.

I used to like both pens and pencils. And I like gel pens a lot.

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