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    "Just one more thing..." Northern Star's Avatar
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    Mechanical pencils

    I much prefer them to ordinary pencils, starting with you don't have to sharpen them. I also have fond memories of doing the newspaper crossword with one when I was a teenager. My grandfather would start the puzzle and when he got stuck, pass it and the pencil to me.
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    I don't believe that I have a pencil preference. Just give me something with a sharp point and a good eraser.

    I do my crosswords in pen because I started doing them in the newspaper way back in the day. I don't like the way pencil writes on newspaper.

    Nice story about your grandfather.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kimmi View Post
    I don't believe that I have a pencil preference. Just give me something with a sharp point and a good eraser.

    I do my crosswords in pen because I started doing them in the newspaper way back in the day. I don't like the way pencil writes on newspaper.

    Nice story about your grandfather.
    I always say an optimist is someone who does the crossword in pen.
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    1. Yankees lose
    2. Red Sox win

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    Fuck pencils. I'm part of the pen master race.
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    ( I won't say the "C word.")

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Fuck pencils. I'm part of the pen master race.
    Same here...... I only allow one kind of pen in the house and I freak out when other pens show up. Tomorrow I'm going to buy about 20 pens to drown out any other pen.

    But I do have a few pens from the Vatican. Full on pens that have the blessing from the POPE. and have the Pope signature. I love my Pope pen..
    In the town where I was born
    Lived a man who sailed to sea
    And he told us of his life
    In the land of submarines
    So we sailed up to the sun
    'Til we found a sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves
    In our yellow submarine

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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    I always say an optimist is someone who does the crossword in pen.
    My wife does them in erasable ink.

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    I can't use mechanical pencils. I press hard and I snap them. I like the industrial grade ones with the thick lead.

    (Hmmm...it's kind of hard not to notice sexual connotations when you start talking pencils.)

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