Lost pencil

Subject: Lost pencil
From: mindblaster
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:32 AM

I lost my pencil. It's wood with a graphite core and about 5 inches long. Anybody seen it?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:56 AM

It's down the side of the settee with the remote control.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 06:14 AM

I have one that sort of fits the description, but it appears to belong to someone with the initials HB

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 07:03 AM

Sorry, the only one I can see is about 12/16ths of an inch long... about as small as you can get into a pencil sharpener and still turn it!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 07:32 AM

I've got a granny in the WRACs who is excused drawers.

eric

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Splott Man
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 07:40 AM

2B or not 2B?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 08:42 AM

Faber-less?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 09:00 AM

is the wood painted yellow or blue? What colour was the lettering on the side? round or octaganal?

details!

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 09:07 AM

No lead in yer pencil, eh?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: jimmyt
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 09:09 AM

Liz, I think 12/16th is simplified a bit by just saying 3/4, but I know you hate simplicity, so we better just leave it alone then. SOrry, 12/16 is much better.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 09:12 AM

Why do we reply to such simplistic threads? Are we so easily led....or is it LEAD?
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:08 AM

Yes, Mike, you are apparently easy to lead.
Best wishes!

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:15 AM

Is there a reward? Have suitable authorities been notified? Is it a danger to the public?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Splott Man
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:28 AM

Did you drop it?

If so it would have been the force of graphity.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:28 AM

- Is its eraser intact?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:28 AM

A picture would help.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:28 AM

not seen it - I have a Pentel (Version 0.5) and it helped me write most of my songs. I daren't loose it - even though it does get mislaid often.

I have a homing penknife - can't throw it away - too valuable and it would be unkind to the ex (thank goodness) wife who bought it ----- though I have been tempted ............................ it would probably find it's way back.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:53 AM

Don't know where it's gone, but here's where it came from.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 11:00 AM

I have it...it is in my little box labeled "pencils too short to save".
You may have it back if you send postage.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 11:15 AM

Bill, I think you're mistaken. We have that box here in a cupboard in our kitchen. It has a couple of these.

It's right next to the spatulas.

SRS

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: just john
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 11:35 AM

Have you checked your user manual?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 11:49 AM

ah, SRS...I must disagree...that box has been in MY possession for several years now. Perhaps I even have one of YOUR lost pencils, as I was in Texas a few years ago, and acquired a lot of extraneous stuff.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 11:53 AM

I don't have it, but I have plenty that are similar to it if you're not too particular. I have no idea where they come from. I can state with 100% honesty that I have not bought a pencil since I took that one required algebra class in college in 1970*. But my house is full of them. I use them for carpentry work and for crosswords when my confidence level is too low for a pen, but that level of consumption doesn't keep pace with the output of the mysterious supply source.



* English majors do not use pencils. Not even for rough drafts. It's part of our religion.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: open mike
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 11:57 AM

are you opposed to using ink pens, ball point pens, fountain pens,laser printers, ink jet printers,etc? perhaps you are a leadite.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: just john
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 12:17 PM

Better a leadite than a graphite-y artist.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 12:27 PM

Is this the wireless version (801.xxxx) or does it have to be connected by cat5e? And what's the operating system? -- it could have simply locked up and if you reboot it'll reappear.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 12:34 PM

I have a whole desk drawer full of them. DIXON TICONDEROGA 1388 – 2 (SOFT), yellow, (how does 7 ½ inches grab you?) complete with eraser. The ones in the drawer are sharpened and ready for use. I worked at Boeing once, where we used a lot of pencils, and later for Ma Bell, where they issued you a handful of pencils every day. Over a period of time, they tend to accumulate. They're sort of like coat hangers. For example, the ones in my desk drawer are just the tip of the iceberg. I have at least a cord of pencils (a stack 4 x 4 x 8 feet) out in the storeroom, brand new, not sharpened yet.

Although I am poor in worldly goods, I am blithe in spirit and rich in pencils.

Need a pencil? Make me an offer (you pay shipping and handling).

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 12:37 PM

Drat! With one of my trusty DIXON TICONDEROGA #2s, I don't have to worry about HTML codes!

Don Firth

[fixed by JoeClone]

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: robomatic
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 12:52 PM

I have a retractable one, and it's also easy to get the lead out.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:16 PM

My children are pencil magnets, so I haven't bought a pencil in years. They pick them up in parking lots and in hallways at school and who knows where else.

Plus, I heard a noise one night and snuck into my son's room with a flashlight, and discovered that the darned things breed in the bottom of his school backpack. It's not a pretty sight, as it is a very mechanical process. They're quite wooden in their expressions.

I pulled out the camera for a digital image of one of our pencil boxes, but realize now that I haven't installed all of the camera stuff in the new computer yet. I'm busy with other stuff right now so you'll have to wait for visual evidence of our pencils.

SRS

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:25 PM

The pencil I probably use the most is a Pentel "Quicker-Clicker" (little thingy on the side to advance or retract the lead). Bought it several years ago, loaded it with one of the big tubes of 0.5 mm. Hi-Polymer leads, and it's still goin'. Got several more tubes of lead in the drawer, so I'm good for the foreseeable future. So I've got a lotta lead in my pencil.

I've had to replace the eraser a couple of times, but wotthehell! I'm human.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:34 PM

Possibly it has reached the next stage of it life. Much like the

    paper clip -> coathanger -> bicycle

lifecycle process, I believe there's one that goes

    pencil -> used coffee mug -> tattered LP cover

Have you checked your record collection lately?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:52 PM

LP covers and such. Yeah. But that brings up another mystery. Where pencils, coat hangers, etc., replicate themselves endlessly, the booklets containing the song words that came with a lot of folk LPs invariably disappear. I think if you ever locate all your odd socks, you'll also find the booklets.

Re paper clips. They crawl all over the top of you desk like cockroaches. Until you need one. Then, they all hide.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: gnu
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 02:09 PM

Your pencil is located on the floor at the exact centroid of area of the largest piece of furniture in the room, unless it is easy to reach under this particular piece of furniture. If so, look under the next largest-lowest piece of furniture.

Don't thank me. This is taken from Murphy's Laws regarding the location of a tool dropped while working on a piece of equipment, usually a vehicle, outdoors, in very bad waether.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 02:09 PM

"... you'll have to wait for visual evidence of our pencils."

umm, hmmm....and I'll go open **THE DRAWER** and overwhelm ALL your measly attempts...NO ONE has more pencils, dead ballpoint pens and extraneous scribbling artifacts than we do! I still find plastic bags of them on old boxes my wife packed up years ago!

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Layah
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 02:40 PM

So that's where all my pencils go! All you evil people who attract pencils, I'm constantly having to buy new ones. I can't figure out what happens to them. And I use mechanical pencils because I hate sharpening the wooden ones. And my coathangers! Give them back! I must be the only person that has to actually buy coathangers. Although I theorize that this is actually because my clothing breeds and my coathangers don't, so I end up with more clothes than hangers.

Now my pens, on the other hand, I know where they disapear to. There's this planet where all the ball point pens go when they manage to escape from us. If I could only find the planet, I wouldn't ever have to buy another ball point pen.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: gnu
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:00 PM

Siriusly?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: jeffp
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:01 PM

The socks that are lost from your dryer migrate to the closet where they are changed into coat hangers. And that's not the worst of it! You know how when you reach for a coat hanger and it's crossed up with another--that's how they mate. EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: just john
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:19 PM

I have the odd-sock situation solved. I have two dozen or so IDENTICAL socks, so they're not parts of pairs. They're parts of a collective.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: gnu
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:25 PM

Perhaps others' lost socks are being assimilated by your collective?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:43 PM

They're not on another planet, they're on The Other Shore.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 03:44 PM

Last week one evening I pulled off my shoes and noticed that my socks didn't match. ARrggghhh! I went through the whole day like that at work. And what's worse, I have another pair just like them!

SRS

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 04:38 PM

socks mystery solved

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Noreen
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:10 PM

Doing well, mindblaster... not as many posts as the goat thread yet though....

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:21 PM

hahahhaha

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: John O'L
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:34 PM

Bill D -

You have a box full of pencils too short to be saved? So is the box a sort of pencil death row, is it?

I suspect they are being saved by stealth, just in case there comes a day when every other pencil somehow disappears.

Your life looks a lot like mine, but I'm sure it isn't mine, mainly because I have no such box. My little pencils are all over the house, just like the big ones.

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 06:26 PM

well...in the shop, a short pencil can be very useful in a compass, or to keep in a small compartment in a tool box where full length won't fit............but I must confess, the label came from someone who had a box labeled "string too short to save"...it was just too good not to steal. So the short pencils migrate to the box in the shop. (my wife actually BUYS pencils, as she can never find the secret stashes. You don't think a squirrel actually remembers where he hid all those nuts?)

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 06:47 PM

If anyone finds it could they sharpen it real good and shove it up martin gibson's ass please?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 08:10 PM

Waht colour is it, and wehere did you lost it?

Subject: RE: Lost pencil
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 08:16 PM

If he knew where he lost it, jOhn, he'd go get it.