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wd* said:
The most boring pile of plastic crap I ever got for xmas.
Round and round, swirly patterns, until the pen wore a hole through the paper. Big ferking deal, santa. How about an air pistol, you fluffy-faced fat git?
If you hated it so much then why did you buy me one?!?!?!
If it was good enough for the goose..............
are you sure he bought it! He may well have handed you down a family heirloom 
marcos maniac said:
The most boring pile of plastic crap I ever got for xmas.
Round and round, swirly patterns, until the pen wore a hole through the paper. Big ferking deal, santa. How about an air pistol, you fluffy-faced fat git?
If you hated it so much then why did you buy me one?!?!?!
If it was good enough for the goose..............
you know, I might still have it kicking around somewhere... If I do then its about 15 years old without it being a hand-me-down! If it was wedg1e's then it is prehistoric! 
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)wd* said:
oooh, what was that other thing I had? It copied pictures for you and you could scale them up or down.. some bizarre plastice frame thing that never stuck to the table right...
Its going to bug me all nihgt now....
Sketchmaster? Aka pantograph copier. Used to be made from alloy when I was a lad; by the time you came along Chinese plastic ruled...
wedg1e said:
oooh, what was that other thing I had? It copied pictures for you and you could scale them up or down.. some bizarre plastice frame thing that never stuck to the table right...
Its going to bug me all nihgt now....
Sketchmaster? Aka pantograph copier. Used to be made from alloy when I was a lad; by the time you came along Chinese plastic ruled...
Nay lad, mine were whittled from 'tbranches of a tree 'n held t'gether w'th sinew from a deer's hind leg.
For some reason I still have it. Bloody useless thing that never seemed to work properly and which I probably only used half a dozen* times.
* for the benefit of younger readers and anyone doing AS level maths, a half dozen was 6. Meaning the a full dozen was 12, unless you were a baker when it was 13. I think they probably still are the same even today but suspect that the mention of such measures has been banned by the EU. I expect the Nanny State Police Farce to arrive withon minutes of posting this. If I don't post again please initiate an undercover search and rescue mission.
wd* said:
oooh, what was that other thing I had? It copied pictures for you and you could scale them up or down.. some bizarre plastice frame thing that never stuck to the table right...
Its going to bug me all nihgt now....
Yep, Pantograph - mine was blue and by moving the pencil you mnake things bigger or smaller. (Jumpers for goalposts moment). But the biggest thing was probably Etch-a-Sketch - which at a later date I discovered was filled with microscopically fine silver powder...
And to that some Keil Kraft model planes to build and that was my spare time filled
simpo two said:
oooh, what was that other thing I had? It copied pictures for you and you could scale them up or down.. some bizarre plastice frame thing that never stuck to the table right...
Its going to bug me all nihgt now....
Yep, Pantograph - mine was blue and by moving the pencil you mnake things bigger or smaller. (Jumpers for goalposts moment). But the biggest thing was probably Etch-a-Sketch - which at a later date I discovered was filled with microscopically fine silver powder...
And to that some Keil Kraft model planes to build and that was my spare time filled
Yep, was the proud owner of one of those too, though as I remember, wedg1e had the monopoly over that one!
You'd think after having had all these drawing toys, I would be a budding artist but I can't even draw water from a well!
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