Novelty Pencils

Oct 28, 2011 Author: Tricia | Filed under: Knick Knacks, Other |

If you have been reading S&D for a while, you are quite familiar with the fact that I am opinionated when it comes to pens and pencils. So in addition to learning how to use tumblr this past week, I also came across a new species of pencils. The engraved pencil.

The engraved pencil embodies an unparalleled opportunity to add something unnecessarily witty on a useful object. Its use most surely affirms your superiority compared to the banal yellow pencil user sitting adjacent to you. You know, an implicit “this person has a sense of humor, embraces novelty products, and is friendship material.” (More gentler descriptors than purely ”quirky,” which Zooey Deschanel once astutely pointed out is a pansy way of telling someone they’re weird.)

1. I LOVE YOU LIKE A FAT KID LOVES CAKE, Cicely Siller on etsy, $12

My ability to recall 50 cent lyrics is a skill that is both useless and more awkward/less admirable than Taylor Swift rapping Eminem “Lose Yourself.”

2. Classic rap pencil set, oneupdesigns on etsy, $6

Age when I learned what “ill” really meant (from someone who played collegiate squash) = 20.

3. WHAT WOULD HONEY BADGER DO, thecarboncrusader on etsy, $3.50

The first screening of “Randall”‘s honey badger video in my Baltimore house prompted numerous proclamations of honey badger love on every internet venue imaginable.