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Pens

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Smallpotatoes, Oct 16, 2006.

  1. Clever username

    Clever username Active Member

    Maybe if you didn't put them in your back pocket you wouldn't have sat on them and they wouldn't have exploded. Just a thought.

    And my pen of choice is the Zebra F-402. Refillable and never fails, even if it does sound like a reject fighter plane from the Korean War.
     
  2. ink-stained wretch

    ink-stained wretch Active Member

    Liquid Expresso, very fine point for fair weather and indoors; pencil for night games and winter.
     
  3. Shifty Squid

    Shifty Squid Member

    http://www.riteintherain.com/

    You can thank me later.

    :)
     
  4. KJIM

    KJIM Well-Known Member

    Where else can you find a message board that has multiple pages devoted to a thread on pens?
    (Although, I must add that I did think this was of the Lemieux-Crosby variety at first.)

    My pens? Two varieties: hotel and anything that comes free to the office in a news release. A random handful includes one from Ford (writes very well), GM (heavy, don't like it), one from that tax service that uses the Statue of Liberty in its advertising (not practical since it has a four-inch replica of the statue on top of it) and some purple one from whatever www.manugistics.com is.

    I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a pen.
     
  5. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Space pens are the greatest. You can take notes in the rain and they'll write no matter how cold it is.
     
  6. doublej

    doublej New Member

    When I took a sports journalism class in college the first day our professor told us to always use pencil instead of pens. We thought he was a nut job but maybe he was on to something.
     
  7. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Pentel Liquid EnerGel Ink 0.7 mm ballpoint. Locked and loaded.
     
  8. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Those used to be my pen of choice, I've gone over to Sharpie. It's a rainbow of colors!
     
  9. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Pencil points break and get dull, too. It's best to have a variety of things and better that none of them cost a lot, because you end up losing them.
     
  10. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    I thought everybody in this business used hotel pens they picked up on the road. Learn something new every day, I guess.
     
  11. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Don't get me going on pens. My wife thinks I need to see someone. There's like 2,394,101 pens around the house from a variety of stores, hotels, etc. I know where all of them go and God help you if you mess with one of them.
     
  12. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    I'm a southpaw. The moniker "ink-stained wretch" was invented for my kind. ;D

    I use Papermates mostly, much to my chagrin. I'm not a big fan. When I get too frustrated with them, which is often, I switch back to Pilots.

    Years of Pilot use has left the underside of my left hand in a permanent smattering of black and blue, with a little red mixed in from the occasional Sharpie.

    Viva la lefty!
     
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