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Old October 16th 05, 01:24 PM
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"Juan" wrote in message
oups.com...

for democracy to exist. But as people believe what the media says, you
can also use a sign of illiteracy (a finger dipped in ink for signing)
to advertize fountain pen ink.


Uhm, the finger dipped in ink is not used for signing; it is to demonstrate
that the person HAS voted (and thus cannot vote again).


They should try that method in Louisiana.


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Old October 16th 05, 01:24 PM
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"Juan" wrote in message
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Maybe. Although I've been told I have a thick skin.


Nope. just a large rectum.


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Old October 16th 05, 01:29 PM
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"Roger" wrote in message
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On 6 Oct 2005 14:32:16 -0700, "*david*"
wrote, at least in part:

The difference today is that the Americans are not fighting the evil,
or even ignoring it, but participating in it instead.


Give it up, Nathan, it's useless going up against the
mindset of David and his ilk.


You are correct, sir. These are the same kinds of people as the Jews who
stayed and stayed and stayed, even though they had the money and resources
to leave. They found it incomprehensible that anyone could be so evil.

My grandmother was like that. Then again, even when she died (near ninety
years) in the eighties, she still believed that 1. airplanes don't really
fly; 2. WWII never happened (it was like some big kind of movie), because
2.a. no one could be doing such horrible things as Hitler was doing, and
2.b. it would take too long to sail a boat to Europe or Japan to have a war.

Mind you, this in spite of living in a town that had a couple of aircraft
carriers regularly going in and out of the bay.

Some people just do NOT want to accept reality.


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Old December 9th 05, 09:28 PM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
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On 2 Oct 2005 04:41:48 -0700, "Juan" wrote:

I've seen in some movies people writing with
dipping pens using brown ink. That's smoke and mirrors; when dipping
pens were the rule, people used black or blue ink which with time
turned brown because of oxidation.


Sepia ink (squirted out of a cuttlefish) has always been brownish, even
when fresh, Iron gall ink is the stuff that's initially (sic) black,
then ages to brown as it burns the paper.

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Old May 30th 06, 10:58 PM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
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"Juan" writes:
you work in a camp in the rainforest?. BTW, I find that the names of
some of the colors are simply put *bad taste* (Tiananmen, Iraqi
Indigo...).


I find it in bad taste that you think those are in bad taste.



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Old May 30th 06, 11:02 PM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
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"*david*" writes:

Is the love of freedom now un-PC? Is the love of freedom now a sin???!!!


Nathan, it just isn't that simple. The fact that you think it *is* that
simple, is the problem in a nutshell.


I am caused to be reminded what Granny Weatherwax has to say to
and about people who like to say "it just isn't that simple".

And the author of that character is UKian, not USian, which
forcloses the "stupid cowboy US" argument.

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Old May 31st 06, 02:46 AM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
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Am 30.5.2006, Mark Atwood schrieb:

"Juan" writes:
you work in a camp in the rainforest?. BTW, I find that the names of
some of the colors are simply put *bad taste* (Tiananmen, Iraqi
Indigo...).


I find it in bad taste that you think those are in bad taste.


This isn't necessarily an issue of supporting freedom or tyranny.
It's also a matter of commercially exploiting politics and the life
and death struggles of others. Those names are marketing by gestural
politics. Unfortunately, that politics of gesture and aura depends on
us remembering the people who fought and died in '89 or in the long
struggle against the CIA-installed, Reagan-supported regime. Unlike
the people who were actually involved in those struggles, merely
buying the ink -- or, in the producer's case, selling it -- does
nothing to further freedom in Iraq or China. The suggestion that the
purchase will put the buyer side on the side of freedom is an
illusion. The reality is the money going into the seller's wallet.

That's crass. That's cynicism. Count me out.

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