07/31/2003 Entry: "ROCK PENCIL OK?"

For those who were wondering...

That's a rock pencil. =D

Chestnuts roasted by Shyguy @ 07/31/2003 03:48 PM EST

HAY! i used to have one of those!

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 07/31/2003 04:05 PM EST

hey matt,

am i crazy or did you used to have a review of teen witch?!?!

Chestnuts roasted by julia badtouch @ 07/31/2003 04:09 PM EST

Never did that one. Just Worst Witch. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/31/2003 04:12 PM EST

Reminds me of those pens with the shredded money that used destroyed bills from the U.S. Treasury.

For things like that, and rock pencils, it was almost impossible to resist the urge to open the pen up (if it was openable...if not, then chew it/break it) and pour out the contents, thereby ruinging the pen.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 07/31/2003 04:26 PM EST

That's the beauty part -- eraser pops off, you're free to peruse the rocks at your leisure. True though, this usually leads to the pencil losing its novelty. I always lost the rocks.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/31/2003 04:27 PM EST

Yeah...even when you'd try top be real conscientous and put all the contents every time, eventually the eraser (or whatever end-closer was used) would start to wear out, get loose, and eventually fall off in your backpack or while you were trying to write something.

I never had that happen to me while taking a test, but I would've been amused if it had. At least in retrospect.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 07/31/2003 04:42 PM EST

Which strong bad email had homsar and strong sad playing connect 4?
and homsar says "you shanked my jengaship." I'll drive to the snake and animal farm and buy a rock pencil for anyone that answers my question. really, i live like 15 minutes away.

Chestnuts roasted by random loser @ 07/31/2003 05:28 PM EST

You're right, Ubu. I completely forgot about that. After making Uber-rock pencils, I would often open my backpack and realize I now had "air" pencils... All the rocks had spilled and congregated at the bottom of my bag, NOT in my pencils, where they should have been!

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 07/31/2003 05:33 PM EST

my "air" pencils usually turned into "nerd" pencils, though. snacky time in algebra.

Chestnuts roasted by John @ 07/31/2003 05:36 PM EST

Ahhhh. The description didn't do the rock pencil justice. It's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. Of course, I do spend most of my time in the crawl space with only my imaginary friend Karate McNinja and an old grape Jollyrancer to keep me company.

Chestnuts roasted by YetiMcSasquatch @ 07/31/2003 05:39 PM EST

To random loser i dont know what you were talking about but thats not a strong bad e-mail its the cartoon "wheres the cheat".

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 07/31/2003 06:58 PM EST

"I actually hate the way the Invasion list turned out. Not so much the list itself -- that's good enough, but I lost the original write-up and had to do a quick and dirty version on the fly. Oh well. :/ "

My condolences. That's the pits. Was it a hard copy that grew legs and walked away, or did the computer eat your homework?
p.s. how many rock pencils did you buy?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/31/2003 07:00 PM EST

thanks Jared, i owe you a rock pencil.
I just couldn't remember where that jengaship scene was.
Wheres the Cheat is the funniest toon, too.

Chestnuts roasted by random homsar fan @ 07/31/2003 07:28 PM EST

Thanks Matt...I have honestly never beheld such things before. I can't help thinking that if those were around in my school, they would have been used extensively to transport crack. I lived in a really bad neighborhood.

Bet you could kick ass in a pencil fight with one of those bad boys though.

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 07/31/2003 08:32 PM EST

Meh, I've always been a mechanical pencil girl. Sadly, never impressed by the rock pencils. The money pencils and pens were cool, the JUMBO PENCILS were hard to sharpen, but I was always disappointed by rock pencils.

They were something you'd regret losing, which one always did, plus they gave you very little actual pencil to use.

Chestnuts roasted by Melanie @ 08/01/2003 02:14 AM EST

Now there's a girl who's serious about her pencils.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 08/01/2003 03:29 AM EST

How sad. My cousin gave me one when I was 12. I'm much much older now and I still have it. In fact it's sitting right here. *shakes it* See?

Chestnuts roasted by Basic @ 08/01/2003 04:47 AM EST

I almost forgot pencil break, started in 2nd grade and lasted to high school, probably the longest running trend I've ever witnessed. My school of course banned it just like gum and pogs...retarded school. The best pencils ever though are those real long wire like pencils but they are a bitch to sharpen and coming in second are flat carpenter pencils, those things last for years.

Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/01/2003 07:21 AM EST

Heh, rock pencils.. The Cincinnati Zoo used to have ones that were supposed to represent animals: Zebra pencials had white and black rocks in them, leopard had brown and black, etc. And no, they didn't remind you of the animal, save the giant letters that said "Zebra" all over the plastic sleeve. boggle

Chestnuts roasted by goeatweeds @ 08/01/2003 01:32 PM EST

reminds me of those vials of rocks("Opals") they sold late at night on TV.

Chestnuts roasted by hjgdhfgd @ 08/01/2003 03:25 PM EST

Speaking of banned games in school, I got busted for pogs, pencil break, and the ultimate game, Slap Attack. Also known as Hot Hands, and maybe some other things. Me and my buddies still play to this day, even though we are now college students. I love that game. Me and my buddies would play until our hands were swollen and red. Anyone else love this game as much as I do?

Chestnuts roasted by Bansheex @ 08/01/2003 06:42 PM EST

Yup but we just called it slaps and it was considered more of a junior type of bloody knuckles. Almost exactly like slaps except with clenched fists and yes sometimes you do bleed, at least you weren't one of those kids that masteurbated in the bathroom.

Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/01/2003 07:10 PM EST

My friends and I originated a game in junior high called "Chop to the Neck". It was very simple...you had to trick someone into looking upward, and when they did, you gave them a karate chop to the throat.

Yeah, we were kind of dicks back then.

You remember the pencils that had the row of little plastic nubs with a lead stuck on the end inside of them? You'd write til you wore down the lead, then remove the nub and shove into the back of the pencil, forcing the next one upwards. Haven't seen those things in ages, but I always thought they were pretty cool (though not very practical).

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 08/01/2003 07:18 PM EST

We called it Slap Hands, I think. What's Pencil Break?
Once I got busted for playing Rock, Paper, Scissors while waiting to take the yearly hearing test. We weren't even hitting each other or pinching or anything, just 3-2-1-shoot, but the crazy ear testing hag dragged us to the principal's office for playing the deadly game of "Roshambo" as she called it.
http://www.gameskidsplay.net/ is a pretty cool site that has the official playground rules to tons of games. If you're the kind of geek who's into that kind of thing.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 08/01/2003 07:23 PM EST

Roshambo? Sounds like an Akira Kurosawa film.

Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/01/2003 07:48 PM EST

Isn't Roshambo when you kick each other in the nuts till one of you gives up? I loved a good game of bloody knuckles. I bet Photog sucked at bloody knuckles. Just so I could bring up Photog.

Chestnuts roasted by Bansheex @ 08/01/2003 08:07 PM EST

Roshambo is Japanese for rocks-paper-scissors.

Chestnuts roasted by Menchi @ 08/01/2003 10:06 PM EST

Man, playing slaps or bloody knuckles against Fisto would have sucked, wouldn't it?

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 08/01/2003 11:34 PM EST

In Western Australia "bar code" was the game, did you get that in the USA?

Everyone would stand in a circle a kick around an empty milk carton, if the thing come to a stop and the bar code was showing on the up side, everyone who touched the carton got to punch the last guy to kick the carton in the arm. Kind of half way between hackysac, and beating the crap out of people.

Greg.

Chestnuts roasted by GTS-4orced @ 08/02/2003 09:10 AM EST

I'm looking forward to what Teddy will say. How is he gonna turn this into an issue, this will be his greatest challenge yet. >>

How did I get dragged into this? I don't turn things into "issues." In fact, I pretty much dig everything Matt does and I don't give him grief about anything...the only thing I make "issues" about is when people run the same shit into the ground blog entry after blog entry about the same shit (i.e. Mac and Me, the fucking Advent Calendar, etc.)...personally I liked the Invasion list...like all the other lists before them...

Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 08/09/2003 05:29 PM EST

"In Western Australia "bar code" was the game, did you get that in the USA?

Everyone would stand in a circle a kick around an empty milk carton, if the thing come to a stop and the bar code was showing on the up side, everyone who touched the carton got to punch the last guy to kick the carton in the arm. Kind of half way between hackysac, and beating the crap out of people.

Greg."

That is the fucking best thing I have ever heard of in my entire life (and, remember, that's saying a lot, beacuse I still hum the theme song to Superhuman Samurai Cybersquad).

All we had up in Ohio where I grew up was thumb wrestling. But occasionally, for some odd reason, if you were losing, you could call out "Chinese Helpers!" and immediately use your pointer finger to pin the other guy's thumb before he summoned his own "Chinese Helper".

My god, does that last paragraph sound absurd. I feel as if I need to take a shower just to wash the evil off.

Chestnuts roasted by "What the hell is the invasion list? Must be better than the WWF/E's invasion angle" @ 08/09/2003 07:24 PM EST

ha we play bloody knuckles and slaps in school but we call it tennis...lol...its awsome

Chestnuts roasted by kk @ 12/19/2003 05:05 PM EST

"In Western Australia "bar code" was the game, did you get that in the USA?

Everyone would stand in a circle a kick around an empty milk carton, if the thing come to a stop and the bar code was showing on the up side, everyone who touched the carton got to punch the last guy to kick the carton in the arm. Kind of half way between hackysac, and beating the crap out of people.

Greg."

We still played barcode when i was in school- which wasn't that long ago- that game is pure evil for a tiny 5'3 girl :( ....
and i thought a rock pencil was like one of those pet rocks with the googly eyes stuck onto the end of a pencil- i'm happy to say that i was more than impressed with what the actual rock pencil in question looked like.

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