It's a midwest thing.

my first was peacock blue-really looks sorta green, but lovely from the nib, your nibs

That's wonderful! I, too, love the way ink from a fountain pen looks. It really is elegant.

I love cursive. my husband, the engineer writes in caps. I can't read that either. I have most of my grandmother's letters and responses. I love how the ink draws across the page and the dips and curlicues. p's and q's

Euchre?

yep

I hear it applies to things besides speaking.

It does.

It's still taught here, though how much longer I have no idea.

I had to learn how to write like an architect in art school because of my major. I pretty much only write in caps now as a result. I like to mess with my kids though and write notes in cursive.

Cursive is no longer taught in school. Haven't heard the word penmanship in forever either. My handwriting usually sucks on account of ALWAYS being in a hurry.

Oh heck...harmless fun. :) Who needs to know French anyway?

ohhhh. pleasuring oneself sounds nicer and em, more pleasurable

Erm, pleasuring oneself......

huh?

On the other hand, I have very good penmanship! Which may be a banned word in some school district. I need to look that up, as I just heard it in passing the other night... Oh the insanity!

whoa. let's never type again-

Spanking the monkey, flogging the weasel....

so choaking a chicken isn't something exotic I just don't know about? like bath houses? for that matter, I don't know what choking a chicken is. like wringing its neck? I've heard of that.

Yes, I want to keep my remaining brain cells.

Lol!

My mom was funny about that. She was a transcriber for many years, and never wanted me to have anything to do with it. It was a terribly fatiguing way to make a living. It was all pay-per-page, until she started working on Capitol Hill. I remember her picking me up at home, driving back to D.C., and working until 1:30-2:00 am, then waking me up where I had been sleeping on a couch. Not good.

Not in HS, apparently! :-)

As seen once on a T-shirt: ' Spelling is really dificoult, (line through it), chalennging (line through it), hard. lol.

yea, that's weird you could take french but not spanish. must have been some deal MI cut with Canada. my husband is french canadian (half) and he doesn't speak a lick of french. forced my daughter to take it and then forced her to immerse in both Canada and France. she still thanks me today for that. made the boy take german. partly because we had all these foreign exchange kids from germany. immersed him and he thanks me today. I'm the only one who took spanish (4 years in H.S.) I am fully immersed and still not speaking it worth a darn. I'd rather teach everyone around here english....

lol