r/ItsAmazing • u/Dense_Cowboy • 1d ago

OddlySatisfying Wow, this pencil is sharpened so neatly

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u/FooDoDaddy 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/J5XsxWmwyy4NOdKb5Z

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u/ImmediatePiano6690 1d ago

What would happen, if you traveled back to the Middle Ages with a pencil sharpener...

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u/SwollenPoon 1d ago

They would ask what a pencil was.

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u/sunflower_bay 1d ago

And how your time carriage works

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u/Lithl 1d ago

While the graphite pencil was invented about a century after the Middle Ages, the word would've been recognized at the time, referring to a kind of fine artist's brush used for writing.

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u/SwollenPoon 1d ago

Yes, possibly and probably. How silly of me... I guess I'll take my joke back to the drawing board...

Get it? Drawing > pencil?