not a deal can get a dozen for $35 ....lets move on this is bag stuffer......move on....

CrescentBunny wrote:Mechanical is ALWAYS better than traditional for one reason. The one jerk (or three even) who has to get up and sharpen that Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) in the grinder for half an hour in the middle of a grueling test.

nothing worse then that looong walk up to the front of the lecture hall on your final to sharpen your pencil when you can feel all the people watching you, waiting for you to sit back down...

lordpil wrote:No. You don't need White-Out with pencils. I do have some in my drawer as well. Unopened, never used. What's the point?

My laptop keyboard died right in the middle of my Ferris Bueller reference...

Let me try again.

Do you go through a lot of White-Out?

/Grace! Graaaacccceee!!!

nunyadamnbizness wrote:Say's the person who has NEVER bought ANYTHING here!!!!!!

ditto from a person who has bought at least 96 in the last 3 1/2 years, the servers crash everytime. Oh well. I got the Boggy Old Creature once and it wasn't anything to write home about. It's the "hunt" and "get it" that is fun....if not no big deal, your not missing out.

If you don't get the Boggy Old Creature, send that money to Haiti.

someone wake me up when the box of carp gets here.

I would be tempted to buy, and this is a nice looking piece. However, I am an engineer and I prefer a slim (small diameter) pencil when doing detailed calculations.

Just my preference,but I do prefer a small utensil for detailed calcs!

I've been using these for ten years now, I love 'em. I'm only on my third one, I've been looking for another and haven't seen any in the stores. I'm in for three! That should last me a while.

My drawer.

droon wrote:nothing worse then that looong walk up to the front of the lecture hall on your final to sharpen your pencil when you can feel all the people watching you, waiting for you to sit back down...

Yesss. I hope that person can feel my dagger like stare on his/her back. Outdated technology for a reason people! It's half as annoying as the person sniffling non stop or the cough/barker right behind you.

hackernun wrote:Well, besides being a Woot addict, I'm an office supply addict. These retail for about $9, though you can sometimes find them for $7 ... and they are absolutely the best mechanical pencils I have ever used for less than $10.

I bought three of these here a year or so ago -- same pencil but with burgundy color plastic barrel rather than cherrywood. I think I paid about a buck each.

Absolutely the best pencil I have ever used. I don't LIKE pencils, but I swear, these are my favorite writing instrument bar none. (Prior to these, I favored gel roller pens.)

They are SO incredibly smooth that you have to try them to understand HOW smooth they are. You can draw the faintest line with the lightest pressure, all the way to a dark, bold line with heavy pressure, always perfectly silky smooth...

And, the eraser is amazing, must be two inches long when fully twisted out -- it will last a LONG time -- and, it's easily replaceable (presuming you can find replacements).

Leads are readily available at excellent prices, made in Japan like the pencils (MUCH better quality than most of the stuff we buy these days), and very easy to load into the pencils (including spares).

The spring tip feature means that it will continue feeding lead out AS you write with it (just apply a bit of pressure when needed), so you don't have to futz around with it as the tip wears down.

In for three; I can get rid of all my stupid elation momofuku cheap-ass pencils and move the lead into something that won't aggravate my carpal tunnel.

lordpil wrote:My drawer.

I don't see any PHD pencils, you should buy three!!!!

lordpil wrote:My drawer.

What, no condoms????

Ok.. theres a first for everything.. I sucked it up, took one for us all, and bought one.. A FREAKIN PENCIL, for 10 bucks.. LOL! I have yet to get my hands on a Boggy Old Creature.. soooo... maybe the woot god will be nice to me and give me the opportunity to get my first. Whats the coolest and/or weirdest Boggy Old Creature that you ever got..?!!

Yeah I could use a pencil right about now...to stab myself in the jugular with waiting on the Boggy Old Creature

CrescentBunny wrote:Yesss. I hope that person can feel my dagger like stare on his/her back. Outdated technology for a reason people! It's half as annoying as the person sniffling non stop or the cough/barker right behind you.

darn. you can hear me? I'm not contagious, promise.

In for two; I can't justify the additional $5 for three, and I already have a half-decent stock of cheapo ones, but their erasers suck the big one.

Interested to see how the spring-loaded lead works.

I got a couple of these in my Santa's Sack of scaffolding. I really, really like them. I wouldn't have purchased one on my own before, but now that I know what's it like to have a quality mechanical pencil, I'd probably spring for 3 of these (to make the deal work properly). I would, that is, if I didn't already have two.
The best thing I like about them is the eraser. With my cheap-o mechanical pencils, the eraser always runs out, usually causing me to toss the pencil and get a new one. These have a looooong eraser in them that'll last a while. Also, the design seems to make it less likely that the lead will snap off if it's slightly too long.

why the hell are they selling pencils for 10 bucks. they can at least lower the price.

A 5 dollar pencil with 5 dollar shipping. Something is amiss. Is it filled with heroin or something?

lordpil wrote:My drawer.

I have extra bubble wrap, if you might need some in 2017...

whitefacedsimony wrote:My laptop keyboard died right in the middle of my Ferris Bueller reference...

Let me try again.

Do you go through a lot of White-Out?

/Grace! Graaaacccceee!!!

That would be Ed Rooney not me.

droon wrote:umm, bad photoshopping?? or are you supposed to be able to still see the shark??

Don't know...Wasn't my work.

Don't think of it as a pencil, think of it as a spear for a screaming monkey.

kdccrosby wrote:darn. you can hear me? I'm not contagious, promise.

In a 1000 strong totally silent lecture hall the power of the cough/barker can be heard in 8.5 High-Def surround sound. Take that back, more like the sound when you go to the Omni- Theater and watch the Kuwait fires.

this is a verry nice pencil. I have two of the basic black model. this is a deluxe version.

Time to write this woot off

lordpil wrote:My drawer.

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...

CrescentBunny wrote:Yesss. I hope that person can feel my dagger like stare on his/her back. Outdated technology for a reason people! It's half as annoying as the person sniffling non stop or the cough/barker right behind you.

My son does the sniffing/snorting thing. It is a tic that he can't control. It has gotten better over the years as he gets older, but it is still quite annoying. I always feel bad for him because I don't want people to feel like you do, towards him. But, I also feel that way at times. When his nerves are bad or if something is on his mind, it is worse, but it has calmed down alot and I hope eventually it goes away all together. He is 16. Some days he doesn't do it at all, so that is a good sign.

FerrisBueller wrote:That would be Ed Rooney not me.

Abe?

You want to buy 3

These seem like decent pencils. Took one for the team and bought 3.

CrescentBunny wrote:In a 1000 strong totally silent lecture hall the power of the cough/barker can be heard in 8.5 High-Def surround sound. Take that back, more like the sound when you go to the Omni- Theater and watch the Kuwait fires.

i gotta agree, we have smaller lecture halls as we are a smaller school, but even then even a foot scuffle is ridicuously loud, and when your half way thorough a Physics question and lose your thought and have to start over, its not fun at all

nunyadamnbizness wrote:What, no condoms????

The boxes of staples says "staples" and the stapler also says "staples". This confuses me.

SOMEBODY KILL THIS THING!

BlackRose13 wrote:Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler...

Best. Stapler. Ever.

All I want is a Random baby of the cosmos! I can't take this anymore!