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FFS, what is it with this attempt at quoting?

Learn to post, learn to snip and learn how to drive your "newsreader",
eh? This can be your special project for the summer holidays.

 

Pah. Window lickers is as window lickers does.

 

Never!

Christ, what is this, 2005 all over again?

 

Usenet life's just a box of shit-scented chocolates.

 

only as far back as '05?

Seems to me the spacepen nonsense has been going since I was in P6
(and had a Parker space pen), around 1977 or so.

 

You're right, but I think loads of people still believed it.

 

-ed it seems!

 

Pencil graphite is actually a fair proportion of clay depending on how hard
the 'lead' is specified to be - of course if graphite dust is that much of a
problem they could always revert to ye olde actual lead pencil.

Not exactly graphite and not exactly electronics, but when I serviced the
starter on the CBX550, the end cap was full of 28 years of compacted brushes
dust - I'm amazed it didn't pack up sooner or maybe even catch fire.

The commutator wasn't pretty either.