Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Sak Ink

Ever since Crumby started collecting saks, he took for granted that some saks featured ink pens and some didn't. But what Crumby didn't think about was the color ink in the various pens. That is until a newly acquired yet used sak pen, the little black sak seen below, ran out of ink. Specifically, it ran out of blue ink. 

Crumby does not write much with the saks so he was surprised when this one's pen quit working. Evidently, the previous owner(s) wrote lots and used up nearly all the ink. So naturally, Crumby wondered if the pen was replaceable or refillable. Turns out, it's replaceable. But Crumby wanted to replace blue with blue for the obvious reason that if you sign a legal document in the Rebooblic, you need to use blue ink. Nobody actually knows why of course, but the penalty for not using blue ink is a good horse whipping.  Better use blue.

 However, when Crumby went to purchase a retractable sak pen replacement, he discovered that the pens came in black or blue and that many vendors were loath to specify which color ink their pens contained. One particularly annoying vendor stated that his product was black and blue simultaneously, much like the character in the song, Bill Brown. Finally, after a long search, Crumby espied a vendor that stated unequivocally that the pens had blue ink.  We shall see, anon.

Meantime, in a panic,  Crumby needed to check all his saks to see which color ink the pens held.  The depicted Compact has blue and the Voyager has black.  Yet all the rest,  two Champions Plus, a Cybertool 29, and a Trail Guide, are blue.  Whew!  Got to remember not to sign my will with that dern Voyager.


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