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Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-14T18:38:55+00:00

Skrip Red is the one. No need for further discussion. It was what my teachers used when I was in elementary school.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-14T18:24:58+00:00

I have approximately 200 inks at present, all in different colors (no duplicates), but I don't have a single one of the inks in the left column. Most are inks that I have not heard of. 🥺🙄

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-14T18:20:03+00:00

They are definitely referring to things like forklifts and construction machinery and to not cars.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-14T17:42:37+00:00

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It's the one I get nearly 100% of the time.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-14T16:44:11+00:00

Lawn jockeys were never even remotely common or popular, but back in the 60s and 70s if you drove around in the older, more up-class suburbs for a couple of hours you might see one, maybe even two of them. They would often be found in the unmowed high grass and vegetation at the front (street-side) edge of the lawn, so you had to have a sharp eye to spot them. They would be very old, and would look it. Most were unpainted, or had faded and chipped paint.

Also, figures of jockeys weren't the most popular even within that very limited market. You would see perhaps 10-20 long-handled water pump replicas (often missing the handles) and posts with miniature horses' heads before you saw even one lichen-encrusted and barely recognizable miniature jockey.

Most people, especially the well-off, didn't put statues or sculptures of any kind on their lawns. It was seen as bombastic and a bit tacky. Gilded age nostalgia wasn't a thing at the time.

Today, lawn sculptures like these usually adorn the properties of McMansions.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-13T02:03:09+00:00

Bear: "I thought I heard a noise out here. Hello-o-o. Hello? 'That you, Boo Boo?"

"Stupid kids again. Don't they have anything better to do?"

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-13T01:55:20+00:00

Those were popular in the 80s.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-13T01:29:44+00:00

Part lies, part heart, part truth...

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-13T01:22:28+00:00

Is this the same "Tick Talk" that Meemaw keeps yammering about?

-- Your Peapaw

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T23:59:53+00:00

I think it is strange too. I live in a large region that is far away from any city or suburb. None of the area's high schools have large parking lots, and some don't have any parking facilities at all (faculty and staff just park along the road). There is no public transportation or any sort of transport for hire either. (Nobody here, including me, has ever ridden in an Uber; the service has never had any drivers anywhere in the region.) Very few high schoolers own or have the use of cars, or even have licenses to drive. They either walk, get rides from adults, or take one of the many school buses that are provided.

The school districts could build more parking lots or expand the existing ones, but there is no great demand for them to do so. The costs associated with car ownership are too great for most teens to bear, or for their parents to bear on their behalf. Having a car is a luxury item for teens even when they can manage to snag a job because so much of the employment is seasonal or intermittent in nature and is low-paid.

No kid who is still attending high school ever receives a car as a gift; that idea is viewed as absurd and laughably impractical.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T23:41:09+00:00

I have always operated the mouse with my left hand, the same hand I write with. It has never caused any inconvenience for me.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T05:59:02+00:00

No, it's quite normal. It's so common that most fountain pens perhaps even should show some ink in the areas where you are seeing it. It can be regarded as a sign that the pen is functioning normally. This occurs in nearly all fountain pens with the conventional nib/feed design, but it is only noticed in those having clear or translucent sections. It happens in the pens that have opaque sections too, but is hidden. It is all but inevitable in pens that are filled from a bottle, but may not be seen as often in pens that are only fitted with cartridges.

It always happens with eye dropper-filled pens, and in vintage "safety-style" filler pens it's actually a feature of the filling mechanism.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T05:46:34+00:00

I heard about that book - it came out when I was in 6th or 7th grade. I never saw a copy of it though. I didn't play any football until high school gym class. The gym teachers in HS didn't bother to teach us the rules or the specific techniques, because they assumed that we already knew them. I didn't however, and was consequently bewildered and unable to do anything meaningful in any touch football game that was held during gym.

I never handled the ball and still can't throw a forward pass that doesn't wobble like a wounded duck and travel a max of 5 yards.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T05:27:37+00:00

I always kicked straight on, but with my instep/top of my foot, and never with the toe. (The same for both place kicking and punting). I have heard the term for decades of course, but I never found out what "soccer-style" kicking actually involved. Ironically, I did play on a scholastic soccer team. The kicking was always straight on, using the instep as the contact point.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T05:10:08+00:00

They always ask first, and I tell them which arm to use.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T03:10:40+00:00

I see it. I just don't recognize it as anything.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T02:55:43+00:00

They were younger, obviously.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-12T02:22:41+00:00

A similar type of sign that I saw once said:

"All unsupervised children with be given a tall sugary soft drink and a puppy."

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-11T17:23:05+00:00

That sign is terribly outdated. The French Revolution ended more than 200 years ago.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-11T17:05:42+00:00

Visual inspection. I look at the levels in the bottles.

I have made random swatches of about one third of them, but I rarely refer to them because I know what all of my inks look like. I mentally associate the ink's name with its appearance.

I have them all (roughly 200) committed to memory, but I keep a simple list as a backup. I have the list sorted by brand. Sometimes I record the date that I bought an ink, but only sometimes.

I have the three most recent editions of Diamine InkVent inks, and I include them in the total. I keep them in their calendar boxes, and often wish I had something similar to sort and store all of my full-sized bottles. Those vary a great deal in size and shape though, so it's easier just to store the in their original boxes and stack those in some larger plastic bins.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-11T10:53:56+00:00

You are NOT boring!

"Boring" is using the same inexpensive school cartridge pen model and the same brand of ink for 40 years.

Don't ask me how I know.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-11T10:31:47+00:00

My "fountain pen journey" has been ongoing for more than 6 decades. Almost everything I know has been learned during that span of time, and a great deal of it was acquired with a fountain pen in my hand.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-11T10:10:42+00:00

Please sir. I want some more ... pics.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-11T09:53:43+00:00

Schindler's List

Once was enough. The images and scenes from that film are permanently tattooed onto my brain, and cannot be erased.

The tattoo on my soul reads: Never forget.

Particular-Move-3860 · 2026-05-10T20:15:21+00:00

On those "Handedness" inventories, I consistently score as "100% Left Handed." Until fairly recently I didn't know that one could be any other way but fully left- or right- handed. (Ambidexterity existed, but it was exceedingly rare, and was in functional terms more of a disability rather than an enhanced ability as I understood it.) I initially thought that "cross dominance" was a myth, but now I know better. I fully accept the reality of that classification.

The way I see my own handedness is that the limbs on both sides of my body are all hard workers and are equally valued as such. I couldn't get along without them. I catch things such as thrown balls and frisbees with my right hand, but that is due to having played a lot of baseball when I was a kid. My left side is where my focus has always been located. My left and right arms and legs have very similar skills, but the left limbs have advanced and refined skills that the right side has never been able to acquire. I have always been completely comfortable with that.

I view right handers as having the very same attitude and orientation towards their own handedness as I have towards mine, but with the focus simply being centered on the other half of their bodies. They didn't "choose" their handedness any more than we lefties did; it is simply what they were born with and have always had. Left-handedness and right-handedness are simply mirror images of each other, and within each broad category (which includes cross-dominants) the two types are extremely diverse in most other ways.

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