Posted 4 years ago
dav2no1
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Too Cool For School Part 2
Grab your eraser and let's start the erases! Grab your number two, but try to be first not second. I always had the fastest eraser in school!
PEE CHEE
The yellow Pee-Chee All Season Portfolio was a common American stationery item in the second half of the 20th century, commonly used by students for storing school papers. It was first produced in 1943 by the Western Tablet and Stationery Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Pee-Chees were later produced by the Mead Corporation.
ERASERS
In 1839 Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanization, a method that would cure rubber, making it durable. Rubber erasers became common with the advent of vulcanization. On March 30, 1858, Hymen Lipman of Philadelphia, USA, received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil.
BOSTON
Boston Pencil Sharpener Company was founded in 1899. In 1913, their sharpener– the Boston Pencil Pointer was selling for about $6. Before then, people were more accustomed expensive sharpeners or having to sharpen pencils by knife, which wasted the lead.
The company was later acquired by Hunt Manufacturing Company in 1925, and X-ACTO bought Hunt’s Boston sharpener line.
Do you think $0.29 was per eraser or for the whole box?
That is a cool e-racer! Did you make that instead of taking notes in a boring class?
Don't tell the teacher! ...I don't want to get no swats. Haha..
Typical racer car we used to make in the old days. All the shape is made with a pencil.
Now if you will disclose your “trade secrets” of how to do that with just a pencil, I can impress my neighbor’s little grandson (age 5)....my own grandsons are so old (18 and 24) they would just think, “Grandmother has reverted to her childhood, poor old thing.”
No secrets. The Eraser shape already close to a car like shape. It's easy to shape the eraser by just rubbing the pencil back and forth. Makes a mess of course. Just a little on top and bottom in the back to make the spoiler and a little in the front to make a little shape. A few thumb tacks for wheels and staple for bumpers and roll cage.
Now some popsicle stick grenades might really impress them ha ha
I’m going to give that a try soon....now the grenade: is that something I could hurt myself with?
Well I thought I had some kid secrets. But apparently nowadays you can just go online and get a step-by-step instruction video...
https://www.instructables.com/Popsicle-Stick-Grenade/
And how appropriate...... It's posted by Van Halen! Lol
Thanks for the video....at least I won’t lose any fingers. Do u suppose it’s THE Van Halen?
In life, it's never "THE van halen"....it's always the poser!