Pay It Forward 2013

[WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

I love this thread!! Many of the gifts offered here are better than the best in my collection! You guys are awesome.

 

As seems to be my tradition when I join a new forum, I'd like to jump right in and offer a PIF gift.

 

There's a stationer on my route that is closing to consolidate with their other stores, and has gotten to the 80% markdowns already. Most everything is gone, but today I stopped in and picked up a few more things(I have already bought all their Postcards for my Postcrossing) One of the things I couldn't pass up at such a discount(even though I don't currently have a Waterman) was the cartridges they had left. I'll keep the blue and maybe start looking for a pen to put them in, but black has never been a favorite ink color for me anyway, so I'll offer up...

 

Three packs of Waterman cartridges in "Intense Black". Each pack has 8 "large size standard cartridges" and from the price tag, it looks like they have been on the shelf for 1 year.

 

I'll ship these anywhere in the world.

 

If you're interested, send me your address. Lets give it until next weekend. I'll put all the address in a hat and draw one out. The winner will get the ink, and all the others will get a card or a postcard from me. I won't announce the winner here, but you'll know when you get your mail. Good luck.

 

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/WRITESHOPROBERT/001-1.jpg

[alc3261]

Welcome back FPN PIF!!

Parker Jotter Brushed Steel finish.

 

 

 

My usual rules apply - no previous winners, preference given to New Fountain pen users!!

PM me with you name, age, location and employment/educational status,

[Cognaticrotty]

OK. sorry for the delay, had no internet yesterday.

 

The winner will be announced when i get home a little later today, and all of the quotes will be posted for everyone to see.

 

Ok.....
For your PIF'ing pleasure, I have a barely used TWSBI vac700 with a fine nib,.....additionally. There's a broad nib, AND a vac20 bottle.
There is NOTHING wrong with any of them. Just weren't my liking...heymatthew can attest to their functionality.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/rcrott1/IMAG0966_zps1906e4d1.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/rcrott1/IMAG0967_zps29ec9b38.jpg
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189/rcrott1/IMAG0968_zps1a8002e8.jpg


Now for the rules and entering process. I thought long and hard about this last night....and definitely want entries to be hand written.
Now, I love quotes...particularly Lord Byron, H.L. Mencken, and Churchill.

Write me a letter/postcard/note with your favorite quote and why it is such.....
Entry restrictions. NONE
Because this will be a handwritten entry, I'll keep it open until the END OF THIS MONTH.....
PM me for the address they can be sent to.

Again, must be received by the end of this month..


Happy PIF'ing

[zoniguana]

 

OK. sorry for the delay, had no internet yesterday.

 

The winner will be announced when i get home a little later today, and all of the quotes will be posted for everyone to see.

 

Ok.....

For your PIF'ing pleasure, I have a barely used TWSBI vac700 with a fine nib,.....additionally. There's a broad nib, AND a vac20 bottle.

 

Beauty!! Can't wait for the good news for somebody! That's a beautiful pen (and bottle), and I know it's gonna make somebody a happy camper. Thanks for putting it up there!

[mhguda]

Winning is the left hand of losing

And losing the right hand of winning...

[Cognaticrotty]

Here is the list of all (minus one that was messed up in transit...message was sent to that person already.) of the quotes that were received.

 

The quote that was repeated the most was "we make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give." I think I had that one 7 times.

 

 

regardless. here are the quotes. I will be posting the winner....after i eat. muahahaha.

 

 

 

Quotes that were submitted

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -Mark Twain

 

Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better. -Samuel Beckett

 

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

 

The unfed mind devours itself. -Vidal

 

A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

 

They who can give up on essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

 

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Hence tomorrow’s problem will not be to get teachers, but to recognize the good ones and not discourage them before they have done their stint. - Jacques Barzun

 

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

 

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Churchill

 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

 

What we observe is not nature itself; but nature revealed to our method of questioning. -Werner Heisenberg

 

Any research worth doing is worth doing well. -Phil Hodge

 

“God this is a beautiful country,” said Cobra Two. She was snapping pictures out the window, but no picture could duplicate the complexity of the beauty; over there, the sun lighted a bomb scar in the forest, and next to it smoke filled the bowl of a valley; a column of rain from one fugitive cloud slanted on another slope, and the blue gave way to black green, to rice green on the flat fields of shoots, which became, after a strip of sand, an immensity of blue ocean. - Paul Theroux

 

The human brain starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -George Jessel

 

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. -Churchill

 

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else. - Churchill

 

A person is a person no matter how small. - Dr Seuss

 

My heart is in the work. - Andrew Carnegie

 

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. -Churchill

 

Underpromise, overdeliver.

 

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. -Roosevelt

 

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. -Horatio Nelson

 

We may well say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governer General. - Gough Whitlam

 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

 

I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

 

Why fit in when you were born to stand out. -Dr Seuss

 

You know you are in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. -Dr Seuss

 

I don’t have a problem with caffeine, I have a problem without caffeine.

 

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her inequity is pardoned; for she hath received the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. -The Bible.

 

To build may have to be the slow laborious task of years. To destroy an be the thoughtless act of a single day. -Churchill

 

I wish he would explain his explination. -Lord Byron

 

I am easily satisfied with the very best. -Churchill

 

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche

 

I don’t allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment. -Leo Tolstoy

 

Some sat that experience is the best teacher. To heck with that, I know people who have been making the same mistake for forty years.

Edited May 12, 2013 by Cognaticrotty

[Cyber6]

 

regardless. here are the quotes. I will be posting the winner....after i eat. muahahaha.

 

 

[mhguda]

I do not see the one I sent. Did you receive a letter from Curaçao?

That breaks my heart.

[wanahakalugi]

Hmm, I cannot seem to find my quote either. I could not mail it so I had asked if I could PM a picture of it and you had said that was fine. I hope you had a chance to read it!

[Cognaticrotty]

wan, i have yours sitting in my printer, guda, i replied to your pm.. i reread all of them and didnt see anything from you

[Amgroma]

The suspense is killing me Cog!

[Cognaticrotty]

I am waiting to hear back from Mhguda. Because I FIRMLY believe that his letter was sent. And I want to afford his entry the opportunity to be seen, as well as given the chance to win..

 

 

AT THE MOMENT, I have it narrowed down to THREE finalists, until I hear from guda.

[wanahakalugi]

If mhguda has a copy of the letter, they could scan and send it electronically

[cvasara]

Good Evening, from downstate Illinois. I have used Skrip Black, permanent Black and washable Black (Fades), for many years. OK, decades. I buy these, older, Skrips Black, when I can, and have quite a few bottles of the 2 oz. bottles, in the Yellow box. Not the Slovenia stuff, but from Fort Madison. I have sold several of these for $15, but I do know that what I have available, will out-live me. And I go through 2+ 2ox bottles of Skrip a year.

Ya want a good, Black, ink, ? That won't screw up any pen ? Well, as a testimonial, push all the others aside, and Skrip will work for 50+ years. You don't have to clean, flush, or what ever else it is ya do with ink, with a good Skrip, Parker, and any of the others that have been around forever.

Anyway, I have sold a number of these to friends, at $15 or so. Like I said, these things will, most certainly, outlive me. The bottles I have, are in English, and French, perhaps. destine for Canada?

So, if you would like to try a 2 oz bottle of Skrip, from a yellow box, I have four (4) available, for the four that says, "yes, I want it", I will draw 4 from that pool, and I hope I get this right, on Monday morning, 13/May/2013. I will mail, by USPS to anyone in the lower 48, the 50 US States. (a bit of humor there, any where, on planet Earth, post free. small print, no, I won't replace a shipped item, if ya don't get it.

I WILL post the 4 winner's here.

It is just MHOP, that the only two inks, no matter the color, are Skrip & Parker.

Notta fan of the pics attachment here, need to learn how to do that,

but the inks are here:\

I hope

 

Edited May 12, 2013 by cvasara

[McFortner]

 

 

What size lead does it take?

Good question, i don't know. I tired numerous sizes, none worked.

 

It's a hipster pencil. It uses a size you probably haven't heard of.

[mhguda]

If mhguda has a copy of the letter, they could scan and send it electronically

alas, no copy. It was 100% entrusted to the mail system. But, I have responded to cognaticrotty's PM, and submitted my quote in electronic form. I'm sure he will take it from there...

[alc3261]

I will be drawing my Parker Jotter PIF this evening so if there's any more interest........

Get your PM in!!

[alc3261]

And the winner is:- orinix!!

[orinix]

I'm so excited - thank you alc3261!

[dem00n]

I have this vintage Cross mechanical pencil, tried selling it on ebay for $3. No one wants it.

 

It doesn't take lead anymore, i don't know why, but its broken.

 

Anyone want it?

 

Picture...

http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt358/dem00n/IMG_0259_zpsf15ba69d.jpg

Still up for grabs.

 

Didn't know it be so hard to give away a free pencil eh?