Totally Random Pen Stuff 10 is a round-up of interesting pen related blog posts that we have recently come across.
Tony Bridges
OHTO Tasche -10T Ballpoint Pen Review
How often do you use the same pen? I have heard that some people can only write with a particular type of pen. I on the other hand am happy to sample a variety of writing instruments.
Inappropriate Uses of Pens 2
• A man who robbed a Walgreens pharmacy in South Carolina this summer apparently wasn’t fully prepared for job.
Greenwood Today reported that Robert Sexton, 33, walked into the drug store and went to the pharmacy counter, where he asked a clerk if he could borrow an ink pen. She handed one over – and he used it to write a robbery note to her.
‘Modern Family’ Kid Star Selling Pens for Staples
Staples is trying to make ink pens cool to kids with its new series of back-to-school promos.
And the huge office supply store is using Rico Rodriguez – Manny from the hilarious TV show ‘Modern Family’– to help do it.
In case you don’t know Manny, he’s the 11-year-old son of Jay and Gloria Pritchett on the hit ABC show about a complicated, hapless and good-hearted family from Southern California. Manny is wise beyond his years, a budding poet who drinks coffee and wears dinner jackets, and usually falls victim to his own attempts at being a suave ladies’ man.
He’s also one of the funniest and most popular characters on the show, which makes him the perfect pitchman to sell pens to kids who probably don’t use them much otherwise.
Play Hide and Seek with the Turtle Pen
We’ve been seeing reports of a new pen design from a UK company, and it looks brilliant to us.
The Turtle Pen is a retractable pen, of sorts. But, instead of depressing a plunger to advance the writing point, the user pulls the bottom of the pen and lets it recoil. That’s what makes the “turtle head” tip on the other end pop out for use.
Then, just a slight twist of the barrel locks the pen into the open position.