memorable_green_pencil epitome of incomprehensibility The pencil I lent JR (new judge in Trial by Jury) was the same damn pencil that I'd lent Jonathan the week before (and who died the night after, a very unexpected_loss for people). The thing itself is not important, but when Jonathan saw it, he went, "Oh! I used to have ones like that when I was a kid!" and I said, yeah, it's probably from the 90s, I found it while cleaning up. The kind with a hollow middle and little plastic cartridges that you'd take out when the lead inside was used up and push them into the back to push out the new. Folks in Cedar_Christian_Academy, did you make dirty jokes about this? You made dirty jokes about other things, anyway. Anyway, this one: the outside is a grippy, rubbery bright green that also functions as an eraser. But almost all the leads inside are dull. 260128 ... ovenbird I can perfectly picture this exact type of pencil! I had a bunch in grade school. Pink with unicorns! 260128 ... raze you know, i think i might still have one of these very things in an old pencil_case. hey, being an emotional_packrat has its perks... 260128 what's it to you? who go blather from