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Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 03:37:47 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote: >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: >> >> >On 2018-07-09 6:29 PM, wrote: >> >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton >> >> >> >> 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 >> > >> >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. >> >> Just the opposite in the US, we learned to write long hand with >> fountain pens. > >Things must have changed in the generation between you and me. I learned >to write cursive with a pencil. > >Cindy Hamilton We learned printing with a pencil. Our desks had a built-in inkwell. We began learning cursive with a dip pen but then switched to fountainpens as we were able to buy one, $4 for a fountainpen was a lot for most 3rd graders in 1950. |
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