Pens

Ibid.

Holy smokes, that sight brings back good memories. Every Christmas, I'd get some sort of team-related pencils. Awesome.

 

Bet you thought that was a clever response, huh?

Number of PaperMates to explode in my back pocket in 33 years: Zero.

 

Hey, wow, a pun on my username. Don't I feel stupid now?

 

I just expected more out of a guy with clever username as his screen name. Silly me.

Pretty simple: Bics explode in my back pocket, PaperMates never have. And I usually have several PaperMates in my back pocket.

 

Big fan of the Marriott pens. I find the Courtyard ones, in particular, write the best for me and my style of writing. The red topped Marriott pens are OK as well. But if I don't have a hotel pen I go with the BIC Ultra Round Stic Grip.

 

It's doing very well.

Oh, you said pens.

 

Pen Is Mightier, Dye?

 

Minor threadjack: I once used a pica pole to measure my own handwriting on paper without lines. I write in a 14-point font. Scary.

I'll take pen over pencil any day, except keeping book in baseball.

Don't have a preference for brand, but I prefer click pens to capped pens, and have to do different colors for different quarters. Am currently loving some little mini-pens that clip to my backpack. Easy access. Can't use hotel pens in the regular course of business, they feel cheap to me.

I've never had a pen explode on me (knock on wood), but all my jeans have a distinct wear pattern on the right side of the right back pocket from always keeping a pen there. Started that little trend when I was about 13.

And I love the fact that we have a four-page thread on pens.

 

When I was a writer, all my jeans (which is pretty much what I always wore) had a wear pattern in the back left pocket for a reporters' notebook. I hardly ever left the house without it. I messed up a couple car seats when the spiral thing caught on the fabric.

 

Every year I'd try to pick the NFL playoffs by picking pencils randomly. For some reason I kept getting Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl. Sadly, my playoff predicting prowess is a step behind my random pencil days.

 

I thought I was the only one who noticed that a large proportion of journalists are left-handed. I really think left-handed people are more creative and inclined to things like writing. Two of my eight siblings are left-handed, and my father always said he thought I might have been left-handed but I would copy my parents, who are both right-handed. I think my grandfather was left-handed but he went to school in the first decade of the 20th century and they wouldn't let kids write lefthanded. I think my left eye is dominant because I hit a tennis backhand easier than I hit a forehand.

 

I can't believe a SNL sketch was referenced before the great Kids In the Hall...who did an entire pen-themed sketch:
"My pen! My pen! He's got my pen!"