# Ladislao Biro's 117th Birthday

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladislao-biros-117th-birthday/767172>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 29, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladislao-biros-117th-birthday/767172 "2016-09-29T00:45:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladislao-biros-117th-birthday/767172/1 "2016-09-29T00:45:09Z")

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– And Google are celibrating it with a Google Doodle in _cursive_. Duh.

Ballpoint pens made cursive scripts difficult and redundant. As discussed on the 'net, as you’d see by Googling “ballpoint cursive”