Ink Well

Mahalo, Valsa! Answers are not always found on the web! Aloha!

I still use a fountain pen with an accountant's point, but must be careful as they don't make them anymore! Aloha!

More likely Rorschach! Aloha!

You must be the only Souper who played Klecksography, as it seems everyone else can only see images in clouds, not ink blots! Aloha!

Frankly, I never mastered them! I hated it. Later, when I was teaching cursive to second and third graders I developed a modicum of understanding. But, with my students I was patient. My teacher was not!

Only a schoolteacher would believe hands that roped and branded cattle, dug fencepost holes, etc., could draw row upon row of neat circles with the ink evenly distributed! What a trial that was! Aloha!

Mahalo, Karen!

In the old frontier one dollar bought a deer skin, also called a buckskin, thus one dollar for a buck, (deerskin), dollars began to be referred to as bucks!

Rico, believe me, I was dumbfounded, too.

This week, I learnt that Milton's Jeopardy contestants have no idea how much American money is "two-bits", and that Soupers have no idea "bucks" refers to Native American males, so I am not surprised only Antique Roadshow viewers know what an ink well is! Thank you for reading and commenting, Ilene! Aloha!