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    Got a Chuckle From Web Ad

    While reading the news this morning an ad caught my eye for a new product that keeps knives sharp:

    Keeps Knives Sharp.jpg

    Wow, who would have thunk it?

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    Well, I have a couple that I could throw his way and no matter how much sharpening he does with them...they will never look like the picture.
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    That's amazing, I heard they are also working on a device the let's you talk to someone without being in the same room. Something about a telyfone?

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    You can even send a Marconigram now, over the ether to a faraway land. Some day Man will land on the moon. By then we will be more correct and say People instead of just Man.

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    Reminds me of the early days of the space program. US spent MILLIONS developing a pen that would write under all conditions that were to be expected on a space craft. Russians gave their guys a #2 pencil. Who was smarted?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Wrenn View Post
    Reminds me of the early days of the space program. US spent MILLIONS developing a pen that would write under all conditions that were to be expected on a space craft. Russians gave their guys a #2 pencil. Who was smarted?
    It depends, have the pen makers paid enough in taxes to show a return on the investment?

    Have you compared notes made in pencil to those made in ink after 20, 30, 50, 100 years or more?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Koepke View Post
    It depends, have the pen makers paid enough in taxes to show a return on the investment?

    Have you compared notes made in pencil to those made in ink after 20, 30, 50, 100 years or more?

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    Actually I have; pencil wins hands down. Both markings inside old organs and notations on paper books and rolls from 100+ years ago. The pencil is always perfectly clear, the pen strictly dependent on the ink used. Something like India ink lasts forever (just another allotrope of carbon), dye-based inks are a complete crapshoot whether they last five years or 100.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Wrenn View Post
    Reminds me of the early days of the space program. US spent MILLIONS developing a pen that would write under all conditions that were to be expected on a space craft. Russians gave their guys a #2 pencil. Who was smarted?

    Not quite true...

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ion-nasa-spen/
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    Bunch a stoners with sharp minds....
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    Unfortunately they will probably make some, if not a fortune, from this ad. Like a lot of ads it may make sense to enough people without background knowledge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Becker View Post
    Bunch a stoners with sharp minds....
    Ooo. Heavy.

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