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  1. 11-12-2012, 02:46 PM #31
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    I have been writing with a fountain pen for years, and I got a dip pen this summer. It is amazing!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ndw76 View Post
    The first day back at work after the weekend always makes me feel like crying.

    On the other hand, many of the other teachers and students at school think I am crazy. It would be fun to start using a dip pen at work and remove all doubt.
    I have considered it myself, however, being that I work in a prison, it wouldn't be long before I had no ink and the inmates were sporting lovely tatts of Noodler's purple colouration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider View Post
    I have considered it myself, however, being that I work in a prison, it wouldn't be long before I had no ink and the inmates were sporting lovely tatts of Noodler's purple colouration.
    Or someone would get stabbed with your pen. [I am sure that would entail a lot more paperwork!]
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    I can see the headlines now...'Prisoners use Dip's pen to pick locks and go on stabbing rampage'


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    Quote Originally Posted by 32t View Post
    Or someone would get stabbed with your pen. [I am sure that would entail a lot more paperwork!]
    Yeah! AND I wouldn't have a pen to do the paperwork with; the nib would be all bent!
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    Quote Originally Posted by MickR View Post
    I can see the headlines now...'Prisoners use Dip's pen to pick locks and go on stabbing rampage'


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    You call me a 'dip' big fella?
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    Well you might be called a dip if you let the prisoners go making lock picks out of your special pens...It was a hypothetical .


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    Quote Originally Posted by MickR View Post
    Well you might be called a dip if you let the prisoners go making lock picks out of your special pens...It was a hypothetical .


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    Yes, well, now you explain it like THAT. I guess that's ONE way to look at it... :-)
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    Well all this talk of using pens and letter writing and such must have put a karmic event into play or something. I just recieved a letter today (along with a very early christmas card) from one of my Welsh cousins (who now lives in France ). I guess my arm is being twisted to write a letter of thanks and well wishes, along with family updates, in reply.
    DAMN YOU FORCES OF KARMIC RETRIBUTION...


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    I have my grandfathers dip pen he used to write lables with, the nib is badly pitted and can no longer be removed from the shaft but it still writes. I have sence picked up a few different dip pens for the fun of it. I've been into fountain pens for a number of years and have accumulated a rather large ink supply. I use the dip pens to test different inks. For a few years I was a member of the Ink Drop at Goulet Pens so i could try inks I probably would not have bothered with before I left that due to financial issues as well as the huge amount of blue inks they send out... I have a rather strong dislike of blue ink...

    Writing with a dip pen helps me with my writing because I have to slow down my thinking as well and moving my arm around. On long writing sessions I tend to bear down and tense up making it hard to read and making me cranky. A dip pen has a natural break in the rythum to reset the mind and body I now enjoy writing to friends and family with both fountain pens as well as dip pens.
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