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[Closed] It's National Pencil Day !

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Who knew?

Maybe it's time for another posh stationery thread....


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:33 am
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Yes,I had worked it out.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:35 am
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What a time 2B alive!


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:37 am
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I don't give a F.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:40 am
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My pen is better


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:42 am
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Sudocreme?


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:45 am
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Has any visited the Pen Island website today to see if they have any special offers?


 
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My pen is better


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:47 am
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Lead Astray on Pencil Island.
Now there's a title


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:49 am
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Now all we need is a constipated mathematician...


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:55 am
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I was drawing up a response, but I am concerned it will be erased.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 11:56 am
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Will be visiting the Keswick pencil museum in a few weeks when we're up there (with the working cats in tow).


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 12:03 pm
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Are we allowed to celebrate the propelling pencil today, or is that seen as the equivalent of an eBike by the purists?


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 12:29 pm
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Dunno. The rules are a bit sketchy


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 12:33 pm
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What is the point?


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 12:37 pm
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Posted : 30/03/2021 12:38 pm
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6Bee


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 12:43 pm
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This'll hurt someone's OCD. Just got my pencils out...


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 12:50 pm
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Mine, haven't used it today though!

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Posted : 30/03/2021 12:59 pm
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Posted : 30/03/2021 1:34 pm
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Nothing but the best here:

fancy


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 1:55 pm
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Just received a nice pack of lyra coloring pencils. They feel nice to use


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 2:10 pm
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Am I allowed to say **** off to someone with a book called "how to sharpen pencils" ? Please? Hatred is oozing.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 2:19 pm
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Surely that's a wind-up? It looks like a clever piss take of all the hipster ****hattery going on.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 3:39 pm
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This’ll hurt someone’s OCD. Just got my pencils out…

No but I'm offended by the label on the pencil DICTATING how it should be used. Never buying errrm... that brand again I can tell you.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 3:43 pm
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An oldie


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 3:45 pm
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Wood!

(s****).


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 4:07 pm
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The king of pencils.

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Posted : 30/03/2021 5:46 pm
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Is the pencil mightier than the sword too ?


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 6:26 pm
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Maybe just a tad mightier than a letter opener.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 6:34 pm
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I’m offended by the label on the pencil DICTATING how it should be used

And, right, I've used them for SKETCHING. I'm such a sheeple.

Thank christ David Rees is a joke (twice on the thread). I was close to actual murder.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 8:24 pm
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The bit I used to love about my Civil Engineering career was getting a new piece of paper taped on the drawing board, sharpening the pencils and getting the design off the calc pad and onto the drawing.

Mind you they used to look at least 10 times better after they had been to the tracers' office.


 
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Here’s my three treasured pencils:

The brass one was a Kickstarter project, it’s all machined brass and steel, the top unscrews to put leads in, but the seam is virtually invisible.
The Rotring Trio-Pen with white text is one I bought when I was working in prepress and publishing in the 70-80’s, the one with the red text I got off eBay a year or so back, it cost quite a lot of money, but new they weren’t cheap! All brass and steel, three different lead sizes; 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7mm. I always used a 4H 0.3mm lead for fine construction lines, a blue 0.5mm for artwork going under the camera for litho repro - blue lines won’t reproduce, and an HB 0.7mm for general writing, etc.
I got the newer one just in case anything happened to the other one, Rotring don’t make an all-pencil version now, just a two-colour ballpoint and 0.5mm pencil.


 
Posted : 30/03/2021 10:03 pm

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