Comments on: #440 - Ticonderoga

By: Not Mike

Not Mike — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:55:28 +0000

Wow this 4wesome but…

Biff blew up teh barklebaomber wile ross played sg rock music solo thingy dammit palm mute tremo thunderstruck

By: Andy Tuba

Andy Tuba — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:39:56 +0000

@Thomas, MoX
My junior high had a standard two-story cafetorium with the requisite acoustic tiling. We learned how to use rubber bands by mounting them sling-shot style on a standard white Bic pen after you take the ink out. Load the ink front-loading-cannon-style and it was perfect for embedding those suckers in the ceiling.

@Devi
I used to be the AV nerd — now I get relatively well-paid to work the theatres around campus. While we’re waiting for the cast to show up, Red vs Blue gets played on a 35′ projection screen. to a 500-seat auditorium … for three techs.

By: MoX

MoX — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:51:26 +0000

In my high school there were a few thousand pencils, pens and ink cartridges stuck ino the soft gym ceiling. the best one was someone threw a swiss army knife and got it stuck _>. i wonder if it has ever fallen down during a game and someone got a free pocket knife.
I never understood why they are called Ticonderoga pencils. Fort ti from the War for American Independence, Ticonderoga the town, and ti paper mill are all familiar places to me and i have never seen a pencil place. There used to be a soldier on the boxes, maybe just a random name someone picked.

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:48:51 +0000

people used to do stuff like that in my 8th grade history class. mr kulka was a chain smoker and would frequently go outside to ‘feed the squirrels’ and leave us alone in the class room. i usually spend the time writing, drawing or sleeping though. it was first period.

By: trevor

trevor — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:06:30 +0000

So there ARE other people in biff world.

By: Opalin

Opalin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:36:26 +0000

Heh… That happened in two classes of mine at high school. The one where it got really exotic was my tenth grade english class. He’d teach us the lesson and then he would read the paper. He didn’t care what else went on, even when someone shot him in the face with water, all he did was look up, say “Point it somewhere else” and went back to reading. He didn’t even bother to wipe his face off! Anyway, we had quite the forest in our ceiling, as well as the pencil throwing olympics planned out by the end of the year. The hardest event was hitting the top shelf while using a curled over lip to hold the pencil. Crazy-crazy-crazy times.

By: MOD

MOD — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:55:48 +0000

@ nikuru

i used to be able to do strange things with pennies…. i once managed to bounce a penny from my table, it bounced across to my friends table and ended up inside the next guys ear…..i think thats the day i beat the school record of ‘most times punched by school bully’

By: the Scarf

the Scarf — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:45:44 +0000

I didn’t even know you COULD throw pencils and make them stick in a ceiling until just a few moments ago!
I’m never any good at that sort of thing anyways….

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:27:42 +0000

Also, that’s a huge desk. He must be at the back of the classroom to not have somebody else bumping his chair from behind. Classrooms can be packed.
I suppose being at the back of the classroom could be how he’s gotten away with putting so many pencils in the ceiling.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:03:14 +0000

Due to peer pressure, I threw ONE pencil at the ceiling. Just once, and I got sent to the principal’s office for it. Considering I probably got sent to the principal’s office a total of 2-5 times my entire school life, I’m quite surprised.
Also, Google ads can be a great help in understanding the titles sometimes, I see. “Ticonderoga Pencils” is the first ad under this comment box.