# I carry entirely too many pens

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-carry-entirely-too-many-pens/86671>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 10, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-carry-entirely-too-many-pens/86671 "2001-10-10T22:03:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-carry-entirely-too-many-pens/86671/21 "2001-10-11T10:20:01Z")

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Whether or not you could get paper to write on wasn’t the point. It was expensive, cool-looking and _really shiny_. What can I say, I’m a sucker for suff like that.

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**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-carry-entirely-too-many-pens/86671/22 "2001-10-11T13:04:23Z")

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Amen, Crunchy Frog! Practicality is irrelevant… the pen was _cool_.

I am definitely a penophile… hmmm, that sounds distinctly like a sexual thing. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate a good penis as much as the next woman, but in this case I am talking about pens.

I have hundreds. My current favorite would be a Uniball, fine point, green ink. My favorite stand-by: Papermate, blue ink, medium point.

ps Crunchy, I heisted your sig for my sig at school. It goes over well here 😉

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-carry-entirely-too-many-pens/86671/23 "2001-10-11T14:21:28Z")

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Carry pens? What the hell for? Wherever I go I look down and \<bam\> there’s a pen. In the street, in a friend’s car, at work, they just appear like droppings.

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**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-carry-entirely-too-many-pens/86671/24 "2001-10-11T15:39:49Z")

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I look through the office max catalogs the way some women look through victoria’s secrets catalogs.

sparkly pens  
metallic pens  
fountain pens  
oh my YES

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