@MinkyMoo, your advice to DocT reminds me of the way those pens were developed. When NASA realized that normal ball-point pens needed gravity to work very long, they spent millions to develop pen cartridges that worked without gravity, and so could write in space, or at any angle.
The Russians used pencils on their space missions.
cleokaya about 14 years ago
And the one on the right needs to go number 2.
Edcole1961 about 14 years ago
I would have thought they were too sharp to go extinct.
SLSH about 14 years ago
So, what’s the point?
Coyoty Premium Member about 14 years ago
They weren’t getting any sharpener, so they died out whittle by whittle.
SLSH about 14 years ago
You’re saying they were rubbed out?
GROG Premium Member about 14 years ago
That’s sharp, Thom
ChazNCenTex about 14 years ago
Lead poisoning?
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
If a #2 pencil is the most popular, then why isn’t it called a #1 pencil?
Good Sunday Morning.
celeconecca about 14 years ago
I do so love to know the formal names of birds and animals, don’t you?
Shikamoo Premium Member about 14 years ago
There’s a frozen face floating behind the soon to be erased penguins.
Allan CB Premium Member about 14 years ago
they were erased from history, and that’s sad.
TheAuldWan about 14 years ago
Of course they’re sharp. They were born on the edge of town….
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
You’re the winner today, TheAuldWan.
bmonk about 14 years ago
@MinkyMoo, your advice to DocT reminds me of the way those pens were developed. When NASA realized that normal ball-point pens needed gravity to work very long, they spent millions to develop pen cartridges that worked without gravity, and so could write in space, or at any angle.
The Russians used pencils on their space missions.
Ooops! Premium Member almost 14 years ago
That’s sad, poisoning themselves to death.
Bmonk, I am dumbfounded.