Pencils
VS
Pens
Pencils
Pros:
- Can erase your incredibly dumb mistakes (just the ones made on paper)
- Can be used to write upside-down (for all those times that you need to write on the ceiling)
- Better self-control when it comes to leaking
- Has a nice singing voice
- Easy to break when you’re mad
Cons:
- Easy to break when you’re mad
- Flammable (big problem for me)
- Always votes Republican
- Tastes bad
- Has a terrible gambling problem
Pens
Pros:
- Smooth and quiet
- Usually comes with a clip to attach to a shirt pocket, a notebook, or a beaver’s tail when necessary
- Often wear nice caps
- Makes the best chicken-parmesan in the world
- Comes with clicky-tops OR twisty-bottoms (variety is the spice of life)
Cons:
- Moody
- Disloyal (has a bad habit of wandering off)
- Not edible
- Always votes Democrat
- Doesn’t fit in nose or ears nearly as well as a pencil
This one is a hard call. I would have to say that pencils get a slight edge for having an eraser, though.
Nuh uh, pens all the way. Pencils smudge when you write with them, and they are harder to read because the lines are fainter. Also, the lead breaks and erasers get worn down to stubs and then when you try to erase you get that gross metal-scraping-against-something-metal-shouldn't-scrape-against noise and it shreds your paper. The only thing pencils are good for is math. And math is sucky. Therefore, pencils are sucky.
ReplyDeletePens are waaayyyyyy better.
Ah, but there are erasable pens too. So now whatcha gone do? (that's rapper talk)
ReplyDeleteI'll go back to my crayons, now.
ReplyDeleteYEH, you didn't think of erasable pens did you punk? So I don't need your stinkin' wood and lead combination and the arrogance you bring with that relationship. The future marches on without you doesn't it, bitch. I think you know which side I fall upon.
ReplyDeleteGotta go with the pens. Pencils have a bad habit letting themselves go and not always looking sharp. Plus the more you use them the less there is of them (literally) and there is already too much of that in my life (i.e. gasoline, food, beer) and there is really only one style of pencil. I don't count those very fragile pen-wannabes, the "mechanical" pencil. Such a poser! Give me my smooth writing gel pen until the paper bleeds it dry!
ReplyDeleteWhen I draw, I love to use the pencil. When I write, I think pencils are singularly unsuitable, and it bothers me when people always write in pencil.
ReplyDeleteI choose pen, because I don't draw as much as I used to.
I would have to go with Pen. I just can't help but chew on a pen cap.
ReplyDeleteI blogged about Erasermates a few weeks ago. I miss them. It's like the best of both worlds. I also like mechanical pencils :)
ReplyDeletewhat about the pens with erasers???
ReplyDeletePencils have to be sharpened.
I vote for marker.
Firstly, In 5th grade a pencil lead broke off in my leg. It's still in there.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, "A pen will always go to water, but a pencil must be lead!"
The answer if PEN...
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ReplyDeleteThey spent millions of dollars inventing a pen that will write in space.... Why didn't they just take a pencil?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I'm still holding a grudge with pencils... In college, most of our tests were given on scantron forms.... Of course, the only type of pencil you can use on scantrons is the trusty #2.... I always came prepared with 3 or 4 freshly sharpened #2 pencils, however, nobody else ever came prepared. and who did they come to for a pencil? Yeah.... Me! I never want to hear 'Uh, hey dude, do you, uh, by any chance, uh, have an extra pencil?'
And did I ever get them back? Of course not.....
Vote for pens!
I was all for the pencil, but then read Chucks well delivered debate about the mechanical penicil...those things are my hot button issue... Darn if I didn't have to Chuck it all.
ReplyDeleteWAIT JUST A GOSH DANG MINUTE...
When does voting close on this puppy? You waited until I was gone and couldn't vote and then you weren't specific about when the votes would be tallied.
Nice.