Instead of rubbing out mistakes, which leaves smudges and sometimes tears the pages in my writing books, I have come up with the idea of sticky back lines attached to a pice of card so when you have made a mistake peel off the line and stick a new one on.
-- gizmo, Nov 26 2001

Tippex, the company that makes the white quick-drying paint that you can cover up mistakes with, already has a product that appears to be rolls of white tape that you can place over mistakes.
-- Aristotle, Nov 26 2001


If I paint out all my letters with the Tippex it also paints out the line I'm supposed to be writing on, causing wobbly, not in a straight line writing. The sticky line would overcome this problem.
-- gizmo, Nov 26 2001


People still write on paper?
-- pottedstu, Nov 26 2001


Stu: At my school we do.
-- gizmo, Nov 26 2001


can't believe a smart boy like you makes mistakes! could you not amend the mistake so that it is right e.g. Henry VIII had five wives.... and one that died.
-- po, Nov 26 2001


Baked. Avery Denison makes something like this. You can get it in varying widths. It comes in a tape dispenser package.

Or at least it did. I used to use it by the case, fifteen years ago when I worked for company that was doing a lot of microfilming. It may have disappeared with the typewriter.
-- elizilla, Nov 27 2001


Note, the noun "rubber" generally means something different in the USA.
-- egnor, Nov 27 2001


Correction fluid or tape would cover the rule line on the paper or incompletely over the writing. I believe the idea is for correciton tape that has a rule line printed on it. Neither [PeterSealy]'s nor [UnaBubba]'s link point to such a product.

The Pelikan site [UnaBubba] linked to has a product which eliminates "Royal Blue" ink, but I assume that means there's a chemical reaction with a particular ink product.

Erasable ink pens are baked and would probably be the best solution to this problem.
-- phoenix, Nov 27 2001


[po] I thought that all 6 of Henry VIII's wives died.
-- cp, Nov 27 2001


where's my tipex?
-- po, Nov 27 2001


Relative to Henry VIII, they lived or died as follows:
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
-- lewisgirl, Nov 27 2001


lewisgirl shouldn't that be...
died, died horribly, died, died, died horribly, died?
-- DrBob, Nov 27 2001


The third one died pretty horribly, too.
Horrible deaths was something of a speciality in the sixteenth century.
-- Lemon, Nov 27 2001



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