>>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!
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>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.

Our grammar school had them, from the days of dipping nibs, but we used teh fountain pens that our proud parents had bestowed on us. Later, of course we all just used biros (ballpoints).

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>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? :)

Who says a well has to be deep and full of water? And I guess you could get your ink from that well, using the pump action of your fountain pen, just as equally as you pump it out of the ink bottle.

It amuses you endlessly?

BA: "My how the winter nights must just fly by in your house"