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Arpie: They Don’t Make Pencils Like They Used To

Posted by Cindy

May 28, 2009 9:06 a.m. • 8 comments

“Pencils seem to be made more cheaply than they used to be. Quite often the lead is not in the center of the pencil. This yields a poorly sharpened pencil that has wood on one side.” Full comment here: http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2009/may/27/little-tiny-tables/#comments

Anything else they don’t make like they used to?

Lynne on May 28 at 9:05 a.m.
Appliances
Electronics
Automobiles
The list goes on and on
scootermom on May 28 at 9:09 a.m.
Creamsicles. They used to be a lot better.
toadman on May 28 at 10:02 a.m.
Steamboats. They just don’t make them as well as they used to…
mike_s on May 28 at 10:37 a.m.
Newspapers.
Cindy_H on May 28 at 10:52 a.m.
Newspapers.

*ouch*
Cis on May 28 at 3:29 p.m.
Newspapers.

*ouch*

Next week isn’t the SR shrinking again? If I understood their
ads they have had.. June 1st in one change is smaller, and June 7th is another..

I showed a picture last week , on my blog, the difference of a 1945 SR and todays, about 2 and half inches narrower.
spokelooneh on May 28 at 9:46 p.m.
Yeah, I saw that too, CIS.

On the good side, fewer dead trees.
Escapee on May 29 at 8:30 p.m.
I don’t think I’ve written with a Pencil for almost a decade. Anyone remember the Ticonderoga #2? Now, that was a pencil.

The Eugene Register-Guard newspaper will be shrinking soon. Pretty soon, if this keeps up, if you want news in print, your paper will be the size of a matchbook cover…