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Who’d have thought that an ordinary Bic Cristal stick pen could inspire brilliance – or at least a pretty good go at wit? Not us, until we saw the reviews for the pen that have been accumulating on Amazon.com for the last few years.

It seems to have started in March  2007 with an overly earnest Amazon review of the Bic Crystal medium point from Matt Williams of Essex, England. He gave the pen four stars, noting that it is “very good if you need to write on paper.” Read More –>

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OK, so we know this is a little old, but it recently showed up as a marketing case study, and we just had to share the Bic Prank with all you who may not have seen it.

The story is this: BIC Cristal is a top-selling pen all around the world, with more than 100 billion sold as of 2004, but apparently writers in Germany weren’t getting the message. Bic decided to step up its marketing there, but with a low budget, there was only so much that could be done.

Some marketing genius came up with an idea for what became the Bic Prank. Read More –>

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Why a Pen is a ‘Biro’ in the UK

February 22, 2010

For our American readers, a pen is usually just a pen. But those of you in the UK know that cheap ballpoints are often referred to as “biros.” If you’ve ever wondered about the reason for that, it’s this: The first ballpoint pen, utilizing a steel ball bearing held in place by a socket, was [...]

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