Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Those used to be available here, but obviously didn't catch on. From
> the
> manufacturers' POV, of course, the problem is that refillable items LAST
> TOO
> LONG.  It's even very difficult to find cartidge refills for older
> ball-points...But good heavens, where would Modern Industry be, if we
> could
> buy a fountain pen, or a car, or whatever...-- and it lasted 10, 20 yrs,
> or
> (gasp) a lifetime???
> It's all ball-points, or felt-tips, of one sort of another, and out they
> go
> when they run dry.
Here at least, it's ridiculously easy to get free ballpoints with company
logos on - I've never ever bought one, yet I have dozens, possibly hundreds of
them laying around. I occasionally buy pencils, but most I've got are likewise
handed out freely by companies. What I do buy, is extra graphite rods.

                                                             Andreas

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