>A new one. Last weekend I was watching a rerun of the orig Star Trek. In it Kirk asked Spok if he hadn't been a mischievous schoolboy:
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>"You mean you didn't use to dip girls' pig-tails in ink wells?"
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>Puh-LEASE! They didn't even have them when I was at school!

In 1970, when I enrolled in the grammar school, they still had the old benches, probably as old as the building itself (which would be 124 years at the time), which had inkwell holes carved. They were finally removed in 1972.

BTW, "inkwell" is another word that amuses me endlessly. How do you get ink from a well - with a bucket on a chain, or is there some pump on top of it? :)