Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for November 21, 2010

And the one on the right needs to go number 2.

I would have thought they were too sharp to go extinct.

So, what’s the point?

They weren’t getting any sharpener, so they died out whittle by whittle.

You’re saying they were rubbed out?

That’s sharp, Thom

Lead poisoning?

If a #2 pencil is the most popular, then why isn’t it called a #1 pencil?

Good Sunday Morning.

I do so love to know the formal names of birds and animals, don’t you?

There’s a frozen face floating behind the soon to be erased penguins.

they were erased from history, and that’s sad.

Of course they’re sharp. They were born on the edge of town….

You’re the winner today, TheAuldWan.

@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.

That’s sad, poisoning themselves to death.

Bmonk, I am dumbfounded.