# Anyone going to to DC Fountain Pen Show this weekend?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 9, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-going-to-to-dc-fountain-pen-show-this-weekend/631008 "2012-08-09T22:21:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-going-to-to-dc-fountain-pen-show-this-weekend/631008/21 "2012-08-10T14:20:14Z")

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> [@tim-n-va](#):
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> I live near the site but have plans to be out of town. Can’t believe I’m giving up a nib smoothing workshop to visit my mother-in-law.

Is that a wacking cough I hear? You’re \*way \*too sick to see the in-laws. Wouldn’t want to contaminate them with your horrific illness…

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**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-going-to-to-dc-fountain-pen-show-this-weekend/631008/22 "2012-08-10T14:30:00Z")

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Is [this](http://www.pencentral.com/)the show in question? What a terribly designed announcement. It took me forever to figure out that it’s at Tyson’s Corner. Is there an entrance fee?

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**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-going-to-to-dc-fountain-pen-show-this-weekend/631008/23 "2012-08-10T15:01:28Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Is [this](http://www.pencentral.com/)the show in question? What a terribly designed announcement. It took me forever to figure out that it’s at Tyson’s Corner. Is there an entrance fee?

It is a bad webpage, isn’t it? You’d think that, with people who are this design-savvy, they would be able to find a web designer who could make it more appealing.

Yes, it’s at the Sheraton in Tyson’s Corner, and the cost is $7. It’s open from 10am-5pm (or maybe 7pm, I can’t tell). That’s actually about half of what the NC fountain pen show costs.

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