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Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws
"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 4:59:41 PM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 22:49:29 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
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>> >On 2018-07-09 6:29 PM, wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
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>> >> I grew up with paper straws and wooden ice cream spoons, never saw
>> >> plastic til the 6o's. I never saw plastic ball point pens until the
>> >> late 50s
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>> >Ball point pens were slow off the start and were very expensive in the
>> >1950s. When I was in elementary school we had to learn to write with
>> >stick pens. Once we demonstrated mastery of that we could use fountain
>> >pens, and we used them right through high school. By the time I got to
>> >university Bic pens were cheap.
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>> Just the opposite in the US, we learned to write long hand with
>> fountain pens.
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> Things must have changed in the generation between you and me. I learned
> to write cursive with a pencil.
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> Cindy Hamilton
Same here, a pencil.
Cheri
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