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And now, a moment of office supply fun
If you know me, you’ll know that I love pencils. I have dozens of them, and even write reviews over at the PencilThings.com blog. I get a subscription to the Pencil of the Month Club (you may commence the laughing now). So when this double-erasered gag pencil showed up, I knew I would like it, despite the silly inscription:
If you can’t read the inscription due to the harsh light of my crappy digital camera, it says “Life without Jesus is like this pencil: No point to it!”
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C:\>SMARTASS.EXE
WITTY REPLY SEARCH INITIATED. . .
Yet it’s still able to erase the dumbass mistakes made by other pencils.
ACCEPT (Y/N)? N
But you get to have twice as much fun with rubbers!
ACCEPT (Y/N)? N
Those round white ones don’t fit in my hand that well anyway.
ACCEPT (Y/N)? N
A problem easily rectified by taking the crappy thing you were given, chopping off the useless bit at one end, and making the damn point yourself. Like life.
ACCEPT (Y/N)? Y
C:\>
EPIC WIN by Butter!
It’s great to see Jesus’ money going to such worthy causes. >end sarcasm<
I imagine a fountain pen would be a better representation of life without jesus. Ink flows effortlessly from it, and can be refilled.
The pencil is a fitting description of religion though, imo. It’s center is poisonous, breaks easily, is antiquated, and is slowly whittled away until it becomes unusable. Yet is somehow persists among its modern replacements.
Antiquated?
*takes deep breaths*
Well, yeah, but antiques have their place. Writing is probably humanity’s most important invention, and there must always be a baseline accessibility to it. Wooden pencils are cheap, require a minimum of special equipment for use or repair (you can use a knife if you’re desperate), and do their job adequately and reliably. Mechanical pencils are a luxury, but by no means a replacement. And most disposable ones are butt ugly.
Umm… Like Jebus!
@Jake D.
Must… Control… Fist… of Death…
I think I have to agree with Butter on this one, although I do get your point (get it? point? pencil? eh?). Pencils, like Jesus, are sort of an anachronism in today’s e-ink society. Though that’s about where the metaphor stops. Unlike Jesus, I think pencils will be around for as long as there’s paper to use it with. Pencils don’t crash, have infinite resolution, and will never goof you up with misleading spell check.
You might say that pencils are are my copilot. (-:
We should make some bumper stickers that say, “When the rapture comes, can I have your pencils?”
Well, as an artist, I have a definite appreciation for pencils and the entire graphite kingdom.
Just saying the pen is mightier than the
swordpencil in most respects.Ok that’s it. You guys are nerding out. It is time for a presidential executive order. No more talking about pencils and it is time to lift the ban on gov. funding of embryonic stem cell research.
I reject the conclusion of the slogan. That non-pencil has two points. You could put someone’s eye out with either end. The slogan would work better on an inflated beach ball.
I agree with Andy Welfle: EPIC WIN by Butter!
Where can I download the SMARTASS.EXE program?
P.S. Next time you throw a nerd party, please invite me. I feel so left out.