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Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers!

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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:

> On Sat, 2020-09-12, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
> ...
>>> I was shocked, as a new-comer to Canada (over 50 years ago), that the
>>> default pencil was HB, not 2B.  It was called to my attention when
>>> someone actually sneered at my 2B pencil.  I gather children are told
>>> that softer pencils are smeary & untidy.  At present, I buy 2B pencils
>>> from Lee Valley under their own marque, "Made in Gt. Britain".  All
>>> that could be asked of a good pencil.
>>
>> Wow.  I grew up (in the US) on 2H.

Must be regional then.  What part of US?  I did elementary school in
rural New Hampshire and the rest in urban Massachusetts.  Don't think
I ever even saw an HB or xH until near the end of high school or
later. 

> What's right must depend a lot on the paper.

My elementary school was very parsimonious with paper.  Mostly used
stuff only a couple of steps better than newsprint. A sharp HB or 2H
would tend to rip holes.  They had to issue slightly better paper in
the 3rd grade when we were issued dip pens, allowed to have filled ink
wells and taught to write with ink.  Yeah, yeah, I'm an old guy.
Remember hectograph?

> I have a cube of small square papers intended for grocery lists and so
> on -- like Post-Its but without the glue.  These are however ... not
> /glossy/ but very smooth. Almost useless with a HB pencil.

Post-Its work fine with a 2B.  Can't check an HB as whenever one turns
up by happenstance I throw it away. :-)

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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  Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers! Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-11 12:06 -0700
    Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers! hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-11 12:40 -0700
      Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers! Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-09-11 20:36 -0300
        Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers! Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-11 18:18 -0600
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            Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers! drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-09-12 08:16 -0500
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              Re: We don't need no stinkin' computers! Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-12 14:24 -0700
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