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Pen licence...
Remember beinging in school and you teacher saying, you can now write in pen. You may have been given something to show you could now write in pen and no longer pencil... or crayon in my case...
So does anybody remember this???
I can't hear you... I have a banana in my ear.
"You mean I'll have to use my brain?... but I use staff!!!" ~ ben-ja-men
ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
vaguely - i also seem to recall those small triangular rubber grip things everyone put on their pen which was supposed to help us grip our pens better.
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veteran
1,260 posts
Location: Now in the land of Oz, Australia
lol
i dont remeber but it must have happend and some stage coz some how i went from using a pencil to using a pen. i just dont no when or how it happend!
What if we think the jokes on them,
But really - the jokes on us....
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veteran
1,433 posts
Location: 8 days at Cloudbreak, 6 in Perth, Australia
I remember it vividly...I was in grade two at the time living in a small town called Kambalda in the Western Australian country.
I was even given a little certificate giving me permission to use my pen...I was so proud. I was the first in my class to be allowed to use a pen.
Ahhh...the memories of young.
Sweet talented nutter
2,615 posts
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
I never got mine
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Running hippy spinning lemming
15 posts
Location: Scotland
erm.... r you suggesting i should have started using a pen by now????!!!!!
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192 posts
Location: Wolverhampton
What is this 'writing' stuff then?
sin
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newbie
9 posts
Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
Yeah, its all coming back to me.
The rubber triangle came before the pen, and was used to stop us sliding the thumb back. Man, it too me soooooo long to get my first pen, and I still hold the damn thing wrong!
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Yeah! Those little red "Berol" fibe tipped thingys with the little cap which you could make whistle if you sucked on them!
I guess that's in case you swallow it and end up breathing through it... perhaps the whistle is designed to alert the teacher to choking kids?
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
245 posts
Location: At the beach.
It was ages until I was allowed to wright in pen.
Because I'm left handed as soon as I wrote a word my hand would then rub over the wet ink and smudge it all.
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
i never got one, maybe that means im not allowed to write pen....gulp
, maybe they are on to me that i've been writing in pen all these years, wait i heard something outside, oh my god they are here!!!!!!!! An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
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1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia
I was late at getting my pen lisence. I was an outcast because i had bad writing....i still do lol
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1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
oohh... i've been writing without a licence too.... *hides* ohmigod they've taken pyrowill!!
I remember being not allowed to write in biro for a while, only fountain pens were allowed, so that was quite exciting when i was suddenly allowed to use a crappy cheap disposable pen.... i never had a biro licence though either....
Do teachers come round and check you've got a licence??
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if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Yeah! Fountain pens! And the little plastic balls from inside the cartridges!
The pen company must have loved me. I used to hack open the empty cartridges with the pen nib, totally screwing it in the process... wicked.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
633 posts
Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
i remember , i first started writing in RED pen , when the teach told me i could write in pen it was the funniest thing ever .... *WHAT ARE U DOING , YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO WRITE IN RED, but you said i could write in pen ma'am... * then i had one of those "click" pens , that would drive everyone but yourself MAD !
those were the days i like breaking the Law 
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I don't remember exactly when it happened. It was sort of a gradual thing that hapened in middle school and high school.
I haven't seen a proper pencil sharpener (the type that is bolted to the wall with the hand crank on it) in years. Although I did have a professor of Feminist Studies in college who had an electric pencil sharpener that looked like a...uh...male organ where you stuck the pencil in the tip.
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Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
I remember!
Instead of writing in pencil, i got given a ....fountain pen
Did anyone else used to collect the balls from the cartridges?
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
This all sounds very foreign to me.
As New York City public school students we didn't even need to licence our firearms. Those were the good old days.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
Written by: Pink...?
Did anyone else used to collect the balls from the cartridges?
Yup, in the barrel of the pen so they all rattled around, i think there's still a substantial number still in there....
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UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
Closest thing I ever got to a licence was a piece of blotting paper : /
I have to admit to collecting those ball things and also to no being allowed to use biros. Why exactly I wasn't allowed to use a biro was a mystery to me.
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
I dont understand why in primary schools they dont allow you to use biro's? I remember as soon as everyone got to secondary schools everyone used biro's. Except me... i still used the fountain pen.
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home
Written by: Pink...?
Did anyone else used to collect the balls from the cartridges?
I did!
I'd forgotten all about that. I was going to make a tiny tiny snooker table
I think I even did but I have no idea what happened to it.
I can' t remember when I was allowed to use a pen first but I Was told in no uncertain terms that I wasn't allowed to write in joined up letters. :hrumph:
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
I was never a child.
I burst out of my mother's chest fully formed and scuttled off to the air-con ducts.
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
1,903 posts
Location: Behind the couch...
Yeah... I think I remember reading about that... so that was you...
I can't hear you... I have a banana in my ear.
"You mean I'll have to use my brain?... but I use staff!!!" ~ ben-ja-men
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star wars
Former Raver Invader... Not sure what i am now...
284 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
yeah dude... i'm with NYC... out here the third grade teachers were like, "i don't give a flying flabajagation what you use, but you better write your cursive alphabet! you better... or i will come to your house, and i will cut you!"
that was probobly just my psycho irish teacher though
haha i remember how it was all around school that she went screaming into the office about her culture and how important it is to her when they said they weren't going to let her have her class of third graders sing a bunch of random irish songs. like "when irish eyes are smiling" and "has anybody here seen kelly" ...she won that battle unfortunately. And i still remember all the damn lyrics! i thought drugs were supposed to make you forget
Clean for 6 months and counting... ah yeah, that's nice.
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Written by: Jek
star wars
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
stick boy!
117 posts
Location: Tampa, FL, USA
Remember those big pencils? They are big now, they were massive when i was a kid! They were really hard to hold. I remember a kid went to sharpen his regular pencil and when he was walking back to his desk, he jammed his newly sharpened pencil into his palm on the corner of a desk. He started screaming and the teacher told him to come to her and she just yanked it out of his hand and told him not to be a baby and stop crying. Good old public schools of the US!!
M
188 posts
Location: Neverneverland
I didn't go to school.
But i sometimes school children would come and swim in my lagoon and i would eat them. Pencils, pens, chalk the occasional hoop & stick, and all.
Does that count?
...tick tick tick....
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Well I've just finished school
but yes, i do remember getting my "pen license" and i wanted mine so badly! it was such an important thing to everyone! looking back its kinda funny to think of the importance we placed on it - but it meant so much at the time!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,617 posts
Location: Berlin, Ireland
Don't remember this happening but then I never learnt to read anywho!
I live in a world of infinite possibilities.
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