My collection of pencils was HUGE. Of course part of that was because I had a drafting table at home. Mechanical drawing was my love during high school.
I actually still use old paper and pencils for figuring stuff occasionally, (when the pocket calculator's not handy). Old habits die hard. Still got a pencil sharpener mounted to a bench top that you have to crank by hand, (remember those?). My step grand daughter, when she was about 5, used to ask if she could sharpen pencils every time she came to visit. She was fascinated by a hand crank pencil sharpener. Lots of kids now have probably never seen one.
. Still got a pencil sharpener mounted to a bench top that you have to crank by hand, (remember those?). My step grand daughter, when she was about 5, used to ask if she could sharpen pencils every time she came to visit. She was fascinated by a hand crank pencil sharpener. Lots of kids now have probably never seen one.
And the ones that have seen one probably couldn't run it!!
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
Of course I remember pencil and paper. There are some who claim I remember clay tablets and a stylus, but that's a lie. I only go back to papyrus and a brush.
I do, however, have fond memories of carbon paper, mimeo machines, hole reinforcers, slide rules, and mucilage bottles with red rubber tips.
I'm a pencil guy. Just got three nice Pentel .7mm mechanicals for crosswords and figgerin'. Going mechanical is about the only way to get soft, dark, lead without going to a stationary store. Apparently, they think we want to use our pencils to write on diamonds.
When I was a kid, we always had a drawer full of pencils that had apparently been around for at least a hundred years. The erasers were more or less solid and would smear any "lead" to which they were applied. A little extra push and they would gladly rip through the paper.
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Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
I'm a pencil guy. Just got three nice Pentel .7mm mechanicals for crosswords and figgerin'. Going mechanical is about the only way to get soft, dark, lead without going to a stationary store. Apparently, they think we want to use our pencils to write on diamonds.
this sort of still have slide rulers and triangle shaped rulers with the six different scales and all my fingers and toes for counting
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There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky
My old ran ran a fairly successful construction company on the back of used envelopes. I honestly don't remember ever seeing him write anything on a note pad.
