Very OT - A Confession and a Rant
Poss
into OfficeWorks, I would.
When I was at school, my parents were not well off. <Cartman> Your
family's poor, Kenny! Why is your family so poor?! </Cartman>. I
used to envy the kids that had those wonderful two tiered wooden
pencil cases - you know the ones. They had a sliding lid and the top
tiered spun out to reveal the one below and there was a small space
for your eraser......
Now that I can afford to buy one, I can't find any!!!! All the bloody
pencil cases these days are made of plastic and have Darth Maul or
bloody Barbie on them!
Does anyone know if these gems are still being made?
I'll go away now.
Rev. Possum Bits (aka Pseudocherus peregrinus occidantalis), U.L.C.
Peering into her letterbox at pam...@wantree.com.au
Tottering through her home page at http://www.wantree.com.au/~pamela
"I'll take one with elephants." Derek Jacobi (I Claudius)
Horace Wachope
>Hello. My name is Poss and I'm a stationery-oholic. If I could move
>into OfficeWorks, I would.
No need. They come to you, if you order more than $50.
>When I was at school, my parents were not well off. <Cartman> Your
>family's poor, Kenny! Why is your family so poor?! </Cartman>. I
>used to envy the kids that had those wonderful two tiered wooden
>pencil cases - you know the ones. They had a sliding lid and the top
>tiered spun out to reveal the one below and there was a small space
>for your eraser......
I never liked them... They were too bulky...
>Does anyone know if these gems are still being made?
Why don't you try a woodwork place and get one custom built? Shouldn't
be very expensive.
>I'll go away now.
Bye.
Sir Oran
>I just want to let you know, you're not alone....I too am a
>stationary-a-holic...I thought I was the only one! I lovingly gaze at all
>the nice pens and paper in every newsagent I visit....I have so many books
>full of blank pages...are we born or made? (or nuts?)
I love those "cardbopard pockets" or "file folders" or whatever you want to
call them. Must have 1000+, full of files, magazines, news clippings etc.
How anyone can bear manila folders I don't know.
--
Sir Oran
Salporin
just everyday pens. I buy them for colour or nib size. Most of them I don't
even use, I just have to have them. I get an idea for them while looking
then lose the purpose after the purchase. I have a journal I update twice a
week or so, which seems silly given we live in a computer age, but I find I
can carry a book and pen around on holidays easier than I can a PC.
supasal <rop...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3878...@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> I just want to let you know, you're not alone....I too am a
> stationary-a-holic...I thought I was the only one! I lovingly gaze at all
> the nice pens and paper in every newsagent I visit....I have so many books
> full of blank pages...are we born or made? (or nuts?)
>
> news:3877f6e5....@news.iinet.net.au...
> > Hello. My name is Poss and I'm a stationery-oholic. If I could move
> > into OfficeWorks, I would.
> >
> > family's poor, Kenny! Why is your family so poor?! </Cartman>. I
> > used to envy the kids that had those wonderful two tiered wooden
> > pencil cases - you know the ones. They had a sliding lid and the top
> > tiered spun out to reveal the one below and there was a small space
> > for your eraser......
> >
> > pencil cases these days are made of plastic and have Darth Maul or
> > bloody Barbie on them!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Peering into her letterbox at pam...@wantree.com.au
> > Tottering through her home page at http://www.wantree.com.au/~pamela
> >
> > "I'll take one with elephants." Derek Jacobi (I Claudius)
>
>
>
>
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Horace Wachope
wrote:
>I have a thing for pens. Not collectable ones like, say a spoon or cards,
>just everyday pens. I buy them for colour or nib size. Most of them I don't
>even use, I just have to have them. I get an idea for them while looking
>then lose the purpose after the purchase. I have a journal I update twice a
>week or so, which seems silly given we live in a computer age, but I find I
>can carry a book and pen around on holidays easier than I can a PC.
"Cruel Intentions: The Journal of Salporin"?
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
day sir_...@my-deja.com (Sir Oran):
said
>>stationary-a-holic...I thought I was the only one! I lovingly gaze at all
>>the nice pens and paper in every newsagent I visit....I have so many books
>>full of blank pages...are we born or made? (or nuts?)
>
>call them. Must have 1000+, full of files, magazines, news clippings etc.
>How anyone can bear manila folders I don't know.
I really, really like those plastic files with the clear plastic
inserts. I have two - one has my RPG characters and a certain photo
of meself and a certain sleb. The other I bought and don't know what
to do with.
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
>I just want to let you know, you're not alone....I too am a
>stationary-a-holic...I thought I was the only one! I lovingly gaze at all
>the nice pens and paper in every newsagent I visit....I have so many books
>full of blank pages...are we born or made? (or nuts?)
>
We are not alone. I get to purchase the stationery for our section
and so have several lovely catelogues. I tease one of the senior
keepers who is also a stationery-aholic. I wave the tempting coloured
pages in front of him and set him drooling.
He was one of those lucky enough to have a wooden pencil box as a
student!!
I also love pens and note books. I just wish I didn't have such
appalling writing.
melody meyers
If you do decide to go live in Officeworks, we'll be neighbours! I
currently reside in the paper/envelopes/labels (the 1st aisle as you go
in) lane...please drop by and visit...bring a kettle & bikkies from the
food aisle & we'll have arvo tea.
With all that Officeworks offers, I think it would be possible to live
there & never leave! Wait on, now I am having flashbacks to that US
program shown on SBS some years back, where a homeless family go and
live on a soap opera set (initially) undetected......
The Officeworks cattledog is my fave. reading.....all I want in life is
some Coles/Myer shares so I can get the OW shareholder discounts. Woo
hoo!
MM
In article <387873ed....@news.iinet.net.au>,
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
>Gee Poss:
>
>If you do decide to go live in Officeworks, we'll be neighbours! I
>currently reside in the paper/envelopes/labels (the 1st aisle as you go
>in) lane...please drop by and visit...bring a kettle & bikkies from the
>food aisle & we'll have arvo tea.
I'll be moving in next door, into the pen and pencil aisle. Pity they
don't sell tellies, we could eat the lollies from the food aisle.
>
>With all that Officeworks offers, I think it would be possible to live
>there & never leave! Wait on, now I am having flashbacks to that US
>program shown on SBS some years back, where a homeless family go and
>live on a soap opera set (initially) undetected......
When I was in London I wanted to move into the National Theatre. But
they wouldn't let me in.
>
>The Officeworks cattledog is my fave. reading.....all I want in life is
>some Coles/Myer shares so I can get the OW shareholder discounts. Woo
>hoo!
My copy is pretty well thumbed as well. As are the sale catelogues
that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
Horace Wachope
>My copy is pretty well thumbed as well. As are the sale catelogues
>that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
>stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
>on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
>appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
The latest catelogue is great.. I've ordered both the computer desk
and the normal desk... More than 50% off... Sorry... no stationery,
per se.
melody meyers
pam...@wantree.com.au (Poss) wrote:
> And on the 7th day, God invented the Harley Davidson, and on the 8th
> day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
> day melody meyers <melodyme...@my-deja.com>:
> said
> >Gee Poss:
> >
> >If you do decide to go live in Officeworks, we'll be neighbours! I
> >currently reside in the paper/envelopes/labels (the 1st aisle as you
go
> >in) lane...please drop by and visit...bring a kettle & bikkies from
the
> >food aisle & we'll have arvo tea.
>
Hi ya, Neighbour!
Pens & pencils? Well I'll be dropping in frequently!
> I'll be moving in next door, into the pen and pencil aisle. Pity they
> don't sell tellies, we could eat the lollies from the food aisle.
Wot NO telly? Then what use are the microwaves they sell..we wouldn't
need popcorn...Hang on, there are a few options here; hook up some
tv/Net arrangement on one of the PCs, check out if there's a telly in
the staff room (you never know!) or use the ol' Myercard to have a
telly delivered by OW's mates Myer (who reside across the road from my
OW)???
>
> >
> >With all that Officeworks offers, I think it would be possible to
live
> >there & never leave! Wait on, now I am having flashbacks to that US
> >program shown on SBS some years back, where a homeless family go and
> >live on a soap opera set (initially) undetected......
>
> When I was in London I wanted to move into the National Theatre. But
> they wouldn't let me in.
>
> >
> >The Officeworks cattledog is my fave. reading.....all I want in life
is
> >some Coles/Myer shares so I can get the OW shareholder discounts. Woo
> >hoo!
>
> My copy is pretty well thumbed as well. As are the sale catelogues
> that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
> stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
> on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
> appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
Yeah! How insulting..having the OW staff handing out store floorplans
to these relucant once a year customers. If you can't find your way
around an OW store, you have no right to be there in the first place!
Mind you, my stationery obession goes back to childhood, and several of
my sibling's offspring are quite happy (does my heart proud!)to come
along with aunty on expeditions to our Mecca (OW)..but they would never
be seen in the back to school crowd...that is just not the behaviour of
the true stationery officiardo!
When shall we have the office warming party?
>
> Rev. Possum Bits (aka Pseudocherus peregrinus occidantalis), U.L.C.
> Peering into her letterbox at pam...@wantree.com.au
> Tottering through her home page at http://www.wantree.com.au/~pamela
>
> "I'll take one with elephants." Derek Jacobi (I Claudius)
>
Amy Bridger
up to the sky and was heard to utter:
>Hello. My name is Poss and I'm a stationery-oholic. If I could move
>into OfficeWorks, I would.
Ohh I love going there! They have all sorts of papers and labels and
sticky things and shiny things and pens and big jars of coffee.
I'm lucky at work I get to open all the mail and stare lustily at the
stationary.. sometimes I even sneak the catalogues home to read in
bed.
>When I was at school, my parents were not well off. <Cartman> Your
>family's poor, Kenny! Why is your family so poor?! </Cartman>. I
>used to envy the kids that had those wonderful two tiered wooden
>pencil cases - you know the ones. They had a sliding lid and the top
>tiered spun out to reveal the one below and there was a small space
>for your eraser......
I guess I must be too young to remember those.
>Now that I can afford to buy one, I can't find any!!!! All the bloody
>pencil cases these days are made of plastic and have Darth Maul or
>bloody Barbie on them!
*hugs her lovely metal pencil tin with Sailor Moon on*
--
Amy Bridger (a...@full-moon.com)
I am in Australia
Richard Muirden
*pout*
I confess!!!!
:)
-richard
--
Richard Muirden, UNIX Systems Administrator and aviation nut!
Cybersource Pty. Ltd. - Systems Administration and Windows/UNIX Integration
"If kisses could kill that one would have flattened several small towns"
- Vir, Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir"
melody meyers
"odo" <NodoO...@Siinet.Pnet.AauM> wrote:
> Why do I get the feeling that we've just stumbled onto one of life's
unspoken
> passions? It's like a counterpart to men thumbing through the Myer
catalogue and
> lingering at the lingerie pages. [umm, a friend told me about that you
> understand, I of course have never ever ever noticed them, trooly
rooly]
>
> - odo
Yeah Odo!
Any clues as to the reasons behind these popular pastimes?
I have a theory that the office-supply thing shows the females' desire
and abiity to plan, create, design, organise, set goals and a whole
lotta other important life-enhancing things, while the boys just want
to play dress-ups in the underwear being advertised, or have impossible
dreams about what it would be like to undress the nice young thangs
modelling the lacy stuff!
Melody (who thinks very few menswear cattledogs are all that sexy!)
>
> Poss <pam...@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3879acb6...@news.iinet.net.au...
>
> > day melody meyers <melodyme...@my-deja.com>:
>
> <SNIP, with pinking shears, just this once>
>
> > >The Officeworks cattledog is my fave. reading.....all I want in
life is
> > >some Coles/Myer shares so I can get the OW shareholder discounts.
Woo
> > >hoo!
> >
> > My copy is pretty well thumbed as well. As are the sale catelogues
> > that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
> > stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around
OW
> > on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
> > appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
>
>
Wollongong Quokka
> that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
> stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
> on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
> appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
Sheesh... all these stationery aficionados coming out of the... errr...
stationery cupboard. So it's not just me. I too am a fan of Officeworks.
In Wollongong there was a very convenient one in Fairy Meadow. Back in
Sydney the best I can do is Alexandria. :(
As for the wooden pencil cases... I had one of those. My brother brought it
back from a trip to Magnetic Island. I loved it and I don't recall anyone
having anything like it... yep... even in my time these zippered pouches
were all the rage. Admittedly the tacky PVC crocodile-skin-motif one I
bought for myself in Year 5 from K-Mart lasted a long time... right through
until the end of Year 12 and it's still around somewhere.
--
Robs the Sydney Wollongong Quokka
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~quokka/
--
"Hello?"
"Calamari."
John Leister
> I have a thing for pens. Not collectable ones like, say a spoon
> or cards, just everyday pens. I buy them for colour or nib size.
> Most of them I don't even use, I just have to have them. I get
> an idea for them while looking then lose the purpose after the
> purchase. I have a journal I update twice a week or so, which
> seems silly given we live in a computer age, but I find I can
> carry a book and pen around on holidays easier than I can a PC.
>
Pens is cool but for real oddness I have a growing collection
of lighters with corporate logos on them, or witty sayings.
I've got quite a few now, from service stations to pharmaceutical
companies and the like.
I have no idea if they will be worth anything in time but you
never know.
odo
passions? It's like a counterpart to men thumbing through the Myer catalogue and
lingering at the lingerie pages. [umm, a friend told me about that you
understand, I of course have never ever ever noticed them, trooly rooly]
- odo
Poss <pam...@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
news:3879acb6...@news.iinet.net.au...
> day melody meyers <melodyme...@my-deja.com>:
<SNIP, with pinking shears, just this once>
> >The Officeworks cattledog is my fave. reading.....all I want in life is
> >some Coles/Myer shares so I can get the OW shareholder discounts. Woo
> >hoo!
>
Wollongong Quokka
news:85da7k$ido$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I have a theory that the office-supply thing shows the females' desire
> and abiity to plan, create, design, organise, set goals and a whole
> lotta other important life-enhancing things, while the boys just want
> to play dress-ups in the underwear being advertised, or have impossible
> dreams about what it would be like to undress the nice young thangs
> modelling the lacy stuff!
Errr... except not all of the posters in this thread have been female.
Wollongong Quokka
news:1e47yn3.106887o9rgyrqN@dialup-> It's my mum's fault!! She was
> a completely and utterly unconcious pen kleptomaniac, used to collect
> them by the drawer full. Not stealing them, just picking them up from
> work and bringing them home..
Errr... yeah. A similar story surrounds the fact that I always had a good
supply of pens that either had "Australian Government" or "New South Wales
Government" written down the side. :)
Tch... parents.
peeby
> Poss <pam...@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3879acb6...@news.iinet.net.au...
> > My copy is pretty well thumbed as well. As are the sale catelogues
> > that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
> > stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
> > on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
> > appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
>
> Sheesh... all these stationery aficionados coming out of the... errr...
> stationery cupboard. So it's not just me. I too am a fan of Officeworks.
> In Wollongong there was a very convenient one in Fairy Meadow. Back in
> Sydney the best I can do is Alexandria.
That does it... I'm going tomorrow! I've been putting it off for too
long. I need a new box of pencils and some of those pretty coloured
plastic file thingies and... more stuff!! It's my mum's fault!! She was
a completely and utterly unconcious pen kleptomaniac, used to collect
them by the drawer full. Not stealing them, just picking them up from
work and bringing them home.. or from the bank, or the post office (in
the days before they tied them down), or off the street, or off my desk!
> As for the wooden pencil cases... I had one of those. My brother brought it
> back from a trip to Magnetic Island. I loved it and I don't recall anyone
> having anything like it... yep... even in my time these zippered pouches
> were all the rage. Admittedly the tacky PVC crocodile-skin-motif one I
> bought for myself in Year 5 from K-Mart lasted a long time... right through
> until the end of Year 12 and it's still around somewhere.
Somewhere in the flotsam and jetsam of my strewn possessions is the
pencil box I made at woodwork class when I was about 12. Exactly as Poss
described! I now use a tartan ziptop bag from ($1.99 at the newsagent)
for moving assorted stationery items around. It's full of paper clips
and rubber bands and a small stapler, a rubber, pencil shapener, bulldog
clips, fluro hi-lighters, a ruler, textas, pencils, and pens... lot's of
pens... many of which I don't recall buying...
--
peeby
Amy Bridger
<quo...@zip.net.au> looked up to the sky and was heard to utter:
>peeby <p...@pop.netspace.net.au> wrote in message
>news:1e47yn3.106887o9rgyrqN@dialup-> It's my mum's fault!! She was
>> a completely and utterly unconcious pen kleptomaniac, used to collect
>> them by the drawer full. Not stealing them, just picking them up from
>> work and bringing them home..
>
>Errr... yeah. A similar story surrounds the fact that I always had a good
>supply of pens that either had "Australian Government" or "New South Wales
>Government" written down the side. :)
Most of my pencils say Casino on them or Ikea. ^_^
I also have a couple of baskets full of purlioned toiletries from
motels, a boxfull of stolen salt, pepper, sugar, coffee, tea etc in
the pantry, a number of pads with various companies logos on... the
list just goes on and on.
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
>>that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
>>stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
>>on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
>>appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
>
>and the normal desk... More than 50% off... Sorry... no stationery,
>per se.
I saw those desks and wondered what they were like. The keyboard
looked a little low to me.
That wasn't you in OW in Vic Park on Sat morning was it? Large carton
holding aforementioned desk in a trolley. And NOTHING ELSE! No
stationery. Nary a pen, even.
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
>> day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
>> said
>> >Gee Poss:
>> >
>> >If you do decide to go live in Officeworks, we'll be neighbours! I
>> >currently reside in the paper/envelopes/labels (the 1st aisle as you
>go
>> >in) lane...please drop by and visit...bring a kettle & bikkies from
>the
>> >food aisle & we'll have arvo tea.
>>
>
>Hi ya, Neighbour!
>
>Pens & pencils? Well I'll be dropping in frequently!
And you won't be able to keep me away from aisle #1, wot with all
those lovely bits of paper.
>
>> I'll be moving in next door, into the pen and pencil aisle. Pity they
>> don't sell tellies, we could eat the lollies from the food aisle.
>
>Wot NO telly? Then what use are the microwaves they sell..we wouldn't
>need popcorn...Hang on, there are a few options here; hook up some
>tv/Net arrangement on one of the PCs, check out if there's a telly in
>the staff room (you never know!) or use the ol' Myercard to have a
>telly delivered by OW's mates Myer (who reside across the road from my
>OW)???
Hmm, all that's next to my OW is a second hand furniture shop and a
Chicken Treat. At least we won't starve and we'll get our five food
groups a day - chicken, chips, pineapple fritter, cheesecake and Coke.
>> >With all that Officeworks offers, I think it would be possible to
>> My copy is pretty well thumbed as well. As are the sale catelogues
>> that come in the mail box. The latest was flogging Back to School
>> stuff, so of course there were all these kids being dragged around OW
>> on Sat morning as their parents loaded up the trolley. If you can't
>> appreciate the stationery, stay out of the store, that's what I say!
>
>Yeah! How insulting..having the OW staff handing out store floorplans
>to these relucant once a year customers. If you can't find your way
>around an OW store, you have no right to be there in the first place!
>
>Mind you, my stationery obession goes back to childhood, and several of
>my sibling's offspring are quite happy (does my heart proud!)to come
>along with aunty on expeditions to our Mecca (OW)..but they would never
>be seen in the back to school crowd...that is just not the behaviour of
>the true stationery officiardo!
I used to love going shopping for BAck to School stuff with Mum.
She'd put the bag of goodies on top of the wardrobe and I'd get it
down and take everything out and look at it. And put it all back.
And get it down again. Bliss!!
>
>When shall we have the office warming party?
When your mates at Myer have delivered the large screen telly, the vid
and the sound system.
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
>Why do I get the feeling that we've just stumbled onto one of life's unspoken
>passions? It's like a counterpart to men thumbing through the Myer catalogue and
>lingering at the lingerie pages. [umm, a friend told me about that you
>understand, I of course have never ever ever noticed them, trooly rooly]
>
>- odo
>
Did I mention I also love hardware shops??
Ok, name dropping time. When I was in Paris in '98 I went to the
Lafeyette Galleries, a rather expensive and tres lovely department
store.
They have a whole floor dedicated to stationery!! Even the friend who
accompanied me, who isn't into stationery, was impressed. They had
all this lovely paper and envelopes and he fell in love with some very
expensive and heavy photo albums.
I bought a gorgeous gold and ebon wood nib pen. It's soooooo
beautiful.
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
>peeby <p...@pop.netspace.net.au> wrote in message
>news:1e47yn3.106887o9rgyrqN@dialup-> It's my mum's fault!! She was
>> a completely and utterly unconcious pen kleptomaniac, used to collect
>> them by the drawer full. Not stealing them, just picking them up from
>> work and bringing them home..
>
>Errr... yeah. A similar story surrounds the fact that I always had a good
>supply of pens that either had "Australian Government" or "New South Wales
>Government" written down the side. :)
Hehehe. I have a couple that say "This pen was stolen from a Poof".
The AIDS Council Dinner Club was selling them for a $1 each as fund
raisers.
John Leister
the normal zippered pencil case.
You know those things look like Navy hats when you
open them and pop them on your head.......
David Barnett
news:3878...@pink.one.net.au...
: I find I can carry a book and pen around on holidays easier than I can a
PC.
Me too.
(Should help the weekly stats).
--
David Barnett
peeby
Don't you find that the pencils all fall out and stab your shoulders?
--
peeby
miinx
ooooooo stationery... Remember those mail-ordered pencil sets which printed your
name in gold on the sides? I had the full kit & caboodle - 12 greyleads, 12 coloured
pencils (and what colours! the pastel green, the pastel blue...), 8 blue biros, 2
red, 2 black... my own personalised heaven.
Then there were the Derwent sets - how I longed for the full 72 colours. I recall
every afternoon on my way home from school I would buy a single pencil from the
newsagent, slowly building up the magical collection. And the Crayola sets, the
wheel of coloured crayons & pastels & textas...
I also did my work experience at Action Books in Ringwood, Vic - a school book &
stationery supplier - and simply loved it. Ended up hanging around there for 5
years, didn't miss a single day. Mmmmmmm...
And even now, there are Post-Its...
miinx
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Poss wrote:
> Ok, name dropping time. When I was in Paris in '98 I went to the
> Lafeyette Galleries, a rather expensive and tres lovely department
> store.
>
> They have a whole floor dedicated to stationery!! Even the friend who
> accompanied me, who isn't into stationery, was impressed. They had
> all this lovely paper and envelopes and he fell in love with some very
> expensive and heavy photo albums.
>
> I bought a gorgeous gold and ebon wood nib pen. It's soooooo
> beautiful.
>
melody meyers
When do we get to create aus.stationery? Possible topics of discussion:
fave. products remembered from childhood..fave current
items....products I wish they'd create...
I thought of Poss, the other day..I saw 15 mins of 'Oprah' (about all I
can take) the show was about secret passions. One woman was a pen-
oholic (proper pens, not just yer standard Bic) with a collection in
total of around 30,000. She had made the obseession into a career, and
it showed her a trade show just for pens! The most expensive one on
offer was US$50,000...crikey! Imagine that, Poss!?!
In article <387873ed....@news.iinet.net.au>,
pam...@wantree.com.au (Poss) wrote:
> And on the 7th day, God invented the Harley Davidson, and on the 8th
> day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
> day "supasal" <rop...@hotmail.com>:
> said
> >I just want to let you know, you're not alone....I too am a
> >stationary-a-holic...I thought I was the only one! I lovingly gaze
at all
> >the nice pens and paper in every newsagent I visit....I have so many
books
> >full of blank pages...are we born or made? (or nuts?)
> >
>
> We are not alone. I get to purchase the stationery for our section
> and so have several lovely catelogues. I tease one of the senior
> keepers who is also a stationery-aholic. I wave the tempting coloured
> pages in front of him and set him drooling.
>
> He was one of those lucky enough to have a wooden pencil box as a
> student!!
>
> I also love pens and note books. I just wish I didn't have such
> appalling writing.
>
> Rev. Possum Bits (aka Pseudocherus peregrinus occidantalis), U.L.C.
> Peering into her letterbox at pam...@wantree.com.au
> Tottering through her home page at http://www.wantree.com.au/~pamela
>
> "I'll take one with elephants." Derek Jacobi (I Claudius)
>
Poss
day, He traded it in for something more powerful, and then on the 9th
said
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>ooooooo stationery... Remember those mail-ordered pencil sets which printed your
>name in gold on the sides? I had the full kit & caboodle - 12 greyleads, 12 coloured
>pencils (and what colours! the pastel green, the pastel blue...), 8 blue biros, 2
>red, 2 black... my own personalised heaven.
>
>Then there were the Derwent sets - how I longed for the full 72 colours. I recall
>every afternoon on my way home from school I would buy a single pencil from the
>newsagent, slowly building up the magical collection. And the Crayola sets, the
>wheel of coloured crayons & pastels & textas...
K Mart has Derwent coloured pencils, in wooden boxes!, on sale for $50
yesterday. Oooh, I tempted. But I can't draw and it would be a
waste. sigh...
>
>I also did my work experience at Action Books in Ringwood, Vic - a school book &
>stationery supplier - and simply loved it. Ended up hanging around there for 5
>years, didn't miss a single day. Mmmmmmm...
Gasp! I never did work experience - it hadn't been invented when I
was at high school. I would have happily spent it in a newsagency.
When I was little I always wanted to work in a post office - that to
me was the ultimate in jobs. All those bits of paper and stamps and
envelopes.
>
>And even now, there are Post-Its...
>
I have two sets of post-its with Amazon on them (freebies with my last
order) and one that has two chickens talking to each other. One says
"Why did the man cross the road?" and the other replies "Why do men do
anything?" And another that says "More than merely a secretary,
slightly less than a god."
Poss, Gumboot Goddess and Stationery Queen.