Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 20:46:46 +0200 Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> En réponse à Sally Caves :
>
> >Anybody remember "Bic" pens?  Always yellow, opaque plastic.  Do
> they still
> >sell those?  (I go for italic fountain pens, she said loftily, or
> sparkly
> >gellcap pens, she said pertly).
>
> In Europe Bic pens are common, and still in yellow opaque plastic
> :)) . Of
> course, Bic also sells lighters and razors :) .
in the US, most bic pens are white, but there are ones that are other
colors. (i say that cause i can walk into a store and see hundreds (if
not thousands) of bic pens and all of them are white plastic)

> Christophe Grandsire.
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