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I, Pencil
The Freeman ^ | December 1958 | Leonard Read

Posted on 01/28/2016 12:40:13 PM PST by TBP

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To: tsomer

Blackwing 602’s are the bomb.


21 posted on 01/28/2016 2:14:41 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: txnativegop

That pencil?
You didn’t build that!


22 posted on 01/28/2016 2:41:35 PM PST by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: chulaivn66
I have sharpened and stropped my straight razor in less time

I remember seeing a video on the local news about how to make your own pop can crusher. The guy making the can crusher was one of those nationally known (I can't remember his name) build-it-yourself, home improvement guys.

After the video ended, the local tv news host had the temerity to say that it was the dumbest idea he had ever heard. Amazingly enough, he kept his job.

23 posted on 01/28/2016 2:52:21 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: TBP

Thanks for posting and calling attention to FEE. Freepers seem to spend more time reading Huff and other garbage rather than educating and intellectually arming themselves.


24 posted on 01/28/2016 4:20:16 PM PST by all the best
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To: TBP

Good post. Thanks.


25 posted on 01/28/2016 4:24:25 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: TBP
Regarding the sharpening of pencils.

Mark Twain once warned about the dangers of using circumstantial evidence. He wrote, observe a pencil that has been sharpened by a woman. If you have a witness, you will know she used a knife. If you go by circumstantial evidence, you will conclude that she used her teeth.

(Ducking below desk!)

26 posted on 01/28/2016 5:49:48 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: all the best

FEE is in the town where I lived and went to high school.


27 posted on 01/28/2016 7:53:29 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP
A good related video:

When ideas have sex

28 posted on 01/28/2016 8:09:14 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: TBP

” My official name is “Mongol 482.” “

That’s racist!


29 posted on 01/29/2016 9:35:14 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

Especially since it’s yellow.


30 posted on 01/29/2016 12:41:38 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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