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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 10:32am on 20/08/2007
I got some birthday Sharpies today, pictured in the icon :-)

12 different colours, but I wondered why there were two close shades of orange but no yellow or dark purple. [livejournal.com profile] major_clanger did a bit of web searching and found that UK Sharpie Minis come in only eight different colours (presumably the two four-packs he found - the other four colours he had to delve in a miscellaneous bucket for), while in the US they have 24 colours.

He also found the British Sharpie Owners Association, though this is apparently for boats and not for cultish permanent markers. "I should have guessed because they talk about a 12 square metre Sharpie, which is presumably not how much you can colour in with one."
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 09:58am on 20/08/2007
If you want colours (and don't mind about not writing on everything) then Letraset Trio Markers come in 300 different colours.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:12am on 20/08/2007
I don't know that I could distinguish 300 different colours! I'm more a Web Safe Color palette person... or the 150 named colors should do... and then I get distracted by wondering if it is best to have the colours at regular intervals, or if it is more useful to have shades clustering around certain colours, or - and then I remember I do actually have things to do today. :-(
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posted by [identity profile] covertmusic.livejournal.com at 10:20am on 20/08/2007
happy birthday!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:31am on 20/08/2007
Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] stephdairy.livejournal.com at 10:44am on 20/08/2007
I'll bite: what's special about Sharpies?

(Happy Birthday! If it's actually today, then you share a birthday with my little two-year-old nephew.)

(S)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:10am on 20/08/2007
They are permanent markers, which write on (just about) anything, are fun to use, come in cool colours, aren't messy, and don't smell funny. They're just not like standard permanent markers like you get in the office stationery cupboard.

Happy birthday to your nephew :-) He'd probably like Sharpies too...
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posted by [identity profile] adela-terrell.livejournal.com at 11:46am on 20/08/2007
Two year old with permanent markers... I might need a lie down ...
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posted by [identity profile] fishlifter.livejournal.com at 07:03am on 21/08/2007
It would have been really useful to have had this information about six months ago. An American, noticing that I had a box of stationery behind the dealers' table, asked me if she could borrow a 'Sharpie' and I offered her a Stanley Knife...
---Mark
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 08:20am on 21/08/2007
I shouldn't laugh, but I did... It makes sense!
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posted by [identity profile] aeglefinus.livejournal.com at 11:08am on 20/08/2007
I was introduced to Sharpies by the autograph hunters outside the Empire in Leicester Square when I went to hang around outside the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy premiere. For the showing at 19:30 there were already a dozen or so waiting at midday when I popped along to remind myself which of the cinemas it was. So I chatted to them and we watched the carpet, barriers and associated paraphernalia being set up, and they talked autograph hunting, and they all had their Sharpies, clipboards, pictures of people who may be attending and plastic protective covers. Sharpies were definitely part of the standard set of equipment for your serious autograph hunter. Much of the talk was how disappointing the BAFTAs had been, and who was going to turn up tonight. I received much kudos when one of the publicists I had met before came over to say hello and had a list of who was turning up. So I now have a few Sharpies and when I have asked people to sign autographs some of them have noticed and said things like "Oh, nice, a Sharpie" because they know it will probably work, not be scratchy and produce a decent signature. You cannot really guarantee with a biro.

Happy Birthday. See you later.
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posted by [identity profile] pigeonhed.livejournal.com at 12:23pm on 20/08/2007
Do not confuse with a Sharpei either, though they also come in various colours according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar_Pei
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posted by [identity profile] snowking.livejournal.com at 03:04pm on 20/08/2007
Can sharpies write on shar peis?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:06pm on 20/08/2007
If they can write on hamsters, they can write on shar peis...
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posted by [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com at 04:29pm on 20/08/2007
That sounds like the beginning of a tongue twister.
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posted by [identity profile] swisstone.livejournal.com at 04:21pm on 20/08/2007
Happy birthday.
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posted by [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com at 04:31pm on 20/08/2007
Mini Sharpies come in 24 colo(u)rs? I only have 20! Augh!

I love mini Sharpies. And I get a kick out of the variety that Sharpies come in. And I've thought, occasionally, it would be fun to collect them all.


Mint on card, of course.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 20/08/2007
The other four colours are specially for the UK market:
Pea Souper, Thames, Glastonbury, and Gravy.
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posted by [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com at 05:56pm on 20/08/2007
All very beige-ish colours, I must say.

I think we should form a Sharpie collector's cult association. Then we could have street fights with Pez collectors. Yeah!
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 06:34pm on 20/08/2007
The street fights wouldn't last long -- just open a pen, and all the Pez folk would run for cover.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 08:19am on 21/08/2007
We could go undercover and infiltrate them, by writing Pez on our Sharpies with a Sharpie :-)
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 06:35pm on 20/08/2007
Oh, and happy birthday! What a great present.
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