The Gelly Roll Pen

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My favorite pen in the whole world! They write like butter... er.. or something like that. I am fretting because I haven't been able to find a reliable source in London. Do other pens even come close?

― marianna, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, Japanese pens are the best. If only I could move to Japan where they have the best stationary in the world! Diaries for the next ten years? You can only find them in Japan.

― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wonderful, but not quite as good as fountain pens.
You could probably find some on the Internet to order.

― Lyra, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Marianna, fill out this survey for a FREE Gelly Roll pen

― Nick, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gel pens...I like the Pilot G-1 and the Pental Hybrid.

― jel, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favorite pen (and having worked in the unutterable hell which is office supplies for 4 years) is the Pilot Uni-Ball Gel Impact RT. If anything writes like butter, it's that...NOT however, for people with thick or sprawling handwriting.

― jess, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you could find some on the internet

You see, I looked for a good mailorder that took Switch card, as I don't have any other method of making a mailorder transaction (save Paypal) and I couldn't find one. So I want someone to find one for me, or buy me some and send me some. We could do a paypal thingy or something in return. Anyone?

― marianna, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have only bought two (frosted translucent housing, a bit bendy) and neither of them even worked.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's all about Dr. Grip anyway.

― tracer Hand, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaking of critical mass...the jelly/gel pen thang has gone into hyperdrive...when I stopped working my office supplies job (and god have mercy on your soul if you do anything other than use them,) we were currently stocking THIRTY-TWO (!!) different types of pens with the word GEL somewhere in there. And yes, Tracer, 1/3-1/2 half of them never even work. Worst offenders: Mon Ami and Pentel's Milky.

Now the roller ball version of the Sensa...THERE'S a nice pen...

― jess, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have these bright round sort of deco 5 buck fountain pens that come in orange, yellow purple and blue. They look like Tin Tin would write with them.

― anthony, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"They look like Tin Tin would write with them." = best description of a pen, ever.

― jess, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Hello all! I am addicted to Mon Ami Jel Pens! I have seen some people trash them here but they are the only ones that have worked for me so far.....and i have moved and can't find them. HELP!!! I live in Houston, Texas and I am DESPERATE! THere is nothing worse than a full grown woman returning to get her M.D. fretting over a pen. Help me fellow gel addicts!

― Tricia, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I really want to help this woman.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Jel to thread

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

The office assistant at work saw me doing the violent wrist-snap pen shake move and said "need a new pen?" and came back with one of THESE

http://www.pencity.com/Pilot/images/DrGripGel.jpg

I am in LOVE

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 December 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

With her or Dr. Grip Gel?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I am in love with my Grip I'm afraid.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 December 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Just like his tricks.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

pen porn

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I am in love with my Grip I'm afraid.

THIS IS NOTHING NEW.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I can only write with a Pilot Hi-Tecpoint V5 Extra Fine, Black.

― dwh (dwh), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

A lot of the greatness of writing isn't the end product but the process of writing, itself. Hence why I hate 'writing' using a laptop. Doesn't feel as nice.

― dwh (dwh), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, Dan. Like a moth to flame.

dwh that pen-porn site is for YOU. I love the scene in Topsy-Turvy where Sullivan's manager shows off his new pen over dinner, a pen that contains its OWN INK. Sullivan's impressed but seems more amused by it than anything else. (But he seems amused by everything; I fancy he'd greet the grim reaper with a pleased chortle)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Whoa-hey, maybe there was a hiccup with distribution of the Gelly Roll pen back in 2001, as I have found that the Art Store in Finsbury Park (Jones? Art Sauce? whatever it's called) stocks all the Gelly Roll pens I could ever need.

― marianna, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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