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unusual facts about Ballpoint pen


Latin! or Tobacco and Boys

While the audience is walking in, a teacher (Dominic) is seen on stage marking exercise books 'with three different coloured biros'.


Bic Cristal

The Bic Cristal (also known as the Bic pen) is an inexpensive disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by Société Bic of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Cran-Apple juice

Marketing executive Edward Gelsthorpe was hired by the company in 1963, having worked in the marketing and product development areas at Bristol-Myers, where he acquired the rights to a device that would apply deodorant using technology similar to a ballpoint pen, leading to the development of Ban roll-on deodorant.


see also

McKesson

Malcolm McKesson (1909–1999), American artist known for his ballpoint pen drawings and erotic fiction