Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for December 27, 2018

Ink is that stuff in your computer printer, son. You see, it used to come in a cylindrical device with a narrow tip, and you had to apply it to the paper manually.

What’s “pen”?

Ink is what is in those cartridges you put in your color inkjet printer. No?

Kids these days, am I right?

I recently remarked to my dental hygienist that I was downsizing and looking for a buyer for several hundred LPs. A couple of beats later, she asked, “What’s an ‘elpee’?” (And, you know, it’s not that easy to explain.)

Why “In-Korporated” of course…