Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If being nut is using MontBlanc and Leicas, I'm also nut.... Thib. At 23:22 09/06/1999 -0700, you wrote: >At 01:19 AM 6/9/99 -0400, you wrote: >><I mainly use fountain pens, non high end which gleefully renders my >>handwriting compleatly illegab&^%le. Ballpoints, artless as they are >>make it so I can occasionally read what I have written afterward. Having >>multiple generations of Medical Doctors in my genetic code makes hand >>writing an issue and thank god for this keyboard and spell checkers. >>Mark Rabiner> > >I worked in Germany in the 70's. Around 4:1 Marks to Dollars. I bought a >ton of Mont Blanc writing paraphernalia. Most of which, I have never seen >yet today, available here in the US. > >For the most part, I have had little trouble with Mont Blanc. Had a .7mm >pencil repaired once. Two years ago, my wife and I each bought a (new at >that time) Mont Blanc Traveler Pen with a medium OB nib. These are great >pens. Easy to fill, writes instantly even after months of sitting dormant, >and doesn't leak. The OB nib is great. > >What's this have to do with Leica? > >Nothing. > >My three closest Leica friends also use Mont Blanc. Ernst Hartmann, Tom >Brichta, and Jeff Alford. > >Now some LUG members will really think we are nuts. Both Mont Blanc AND >Leica... > >How demented can we be! > >Jim > > >