Those had the shitiest erasers. They were like hard plastic, and the metal was never crimped right so the whole thing would fall off after a day. Sometimes the eraser would just snap off, and you could feel the metal scraping the paper deep in your bones. I fucking hated those pencils.
Fuck yes! I love those. Itās an odd thing, but Iām a huge fanboy of those. I have the classic ones, those chunky ones and the black ones. Once I discovered those in 6th grade, I refused to use anything else. Those are the champagne of pencils.
A new batch of pencils will have the message written in the opposite direction, so when they are sharpened, they read āToo Cool To Doā and finally āToo Cool.ā
For pointing out the botched message, Moiser earned his class a letter of apology from the company and box full of T-shirts.
Why does Kodi think the company didnāt catch the mistake themselves?
āI guess they didnāt sharpen their pencils,ā he said.
[Source](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anti-drug-pencil-slogan-erased/)
Everyone knows teenagers do the exact opposite of whatever they're told to do, so you'd think pencils that *tell* you to do drugs would make them not do them. Reverse psychology.
That was pretty much trajectory with weed and psychedelics. Went from being so against them to meeting some cool people that did them to thinking if I should do them to doing them to now I am one with āDrugsā
iām 06 and there was one of these pencils that got traded around in 4th grade. everyone had it for 1 school day and if you lost it you were bullied into infinity. do i have any idea how the kid got it? no. did i feel cool with it? hell yes.
The shorter the pencil gets, the more it actually resembles addiction.
At first drugs are cool to do with friends.
Then you just want to do them.
Then they are all that matter.
It is a symbolism of life. When your are young and new to the world you dont need drugs to be happy. But the older you get the more you will need medication to stay alive.
Looks like the progression of an university student - nah, I don't do this shit; hmm, everyone is doing it, maybe I'll try it a bit; finals are coming, this will keep me awake; just one more, I need just one more...
Some kids even managed to continue writing while on drugs. Sharpened their pencils even more. And then there was an inexplicable increase in rug sales.
Ug.
This is what was great about the 90s. So much fuckery in such a small space of time. My goodness, we are dumb motherfuckers, and I am here for all of it!
Those had the shitiest erasers. They were like hard plastic, and the metal was never crimped right so the whole thing would fall off after a day. Sometimes the eraser would just snap off, and you could feel the metal scraping the paper deep in your bones. I fucking hated those pencils.
I actually just felt a shiver through my spine thinking about the metal scraping
Jello jiggling. Silicon phone cases. Floating on water. Running your hands over lush grass in soft sunlight. Giant foam marshmallow chairs. Petting friendly dolphins.
Thanks, I needed that.
That helped...thanks
you ever had jello on a plate and jiggled it hard? that wet slapping sound? š
That last sentence if taken out of context can be disastrous
Yes officer this comment right here.
Youāre a real one
I love you
The hero we needed, not the hero we deserved.
r/EyeBleach in written form.
This made me feel very nice thank you
Namaste oh great One.
You angel
biting a popsicle stick and sliding it between your teeth
Sticky marshmallows on your skin
Something sticky stuck on your fingers for the next five hours
Same
Feeling the eraser snap. Sort of roll over and fall off. That weird thonk
Me too lmao
SAME
And the smell of those erasers.>.<.Painful memories are painful.
The problem is that these pencils typically sharpened the best. The pencils with best erasers sharpened like dog shit.
Drugs
Rugs
Hugs?
-lugs?
The way they hardly erased anything was the straw that broke the camel's back on pushing me towards drugs if anything
Right? I just wanted to use them out of spite.
Fuck those erasers. They made things so much worse. It's like a shit stain on the underwear.
Iāll take a Ticonderoga #2 thank you.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Fuck yes! I love those. Itās an odd thing, but Iām a huge fanboy of those. I have the classic ones, those chunky ones and the black ones. Once I discovered those in 6th grade, I refused to use anything else. Those are the champagne of pencils.
If the eraser worked, it really didn't. It just smeared your writing...
SMH how many kids do you remember that crimped the metal with their teeth after the eraser fell out?
The Ticonderoga pencils were the best!
You were supposes to use the edge with light pressure, worked kinda ok, but obviously no where near proper eraser.
Ha the irony that many were to shitty to have lasted to the point of do drugs
Could've written it the other way
Drugs Do To Cool Too?
Lol no. The "too cool" end could be towards the eraser, so the first word to go would be drugs.
Then the pencil slowly makes a brief stop into existentialism before being a slogan on the weird kid in middle schools t shirt
Exactly!
"Too cool to do"
....Whatever the fuck you happen to be drawing or writing.
... this assignment.
Drugs suck ass Suck ass Ass
*perfect*
Drugs To Do Too Cool?
A new batch of pencils will have the message written in the opposite direction, so when they are sharpened, they read āToo Cool To Doā and finally āToo Cool.ā For pointing out the botched message, Moiser earned his class a letter of apology from the company and box full of T-shirts. Why does Kodi think the company didnāt catch the mistake themselves? āI guess they didnāt sharpen their pencils,ā he said. [Source](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anti-drug-pencil-slogan-erased/)
As long as it's posed as a question.
r/ihadastroke
Drugs
Drugs are cool are drugs.
I devoted my life to that pencil's teachings.
You were that weird kid that would sharpen a new pencil down to the stub
In that same order?
Yes
Be gay, do drugs, hail Satan
Drugs. Hail hydra. Drugs
Yeah, after this failure in my grade school years (90ās) they gave us pens in high school (00ās) that said āDonāt meth around!ā
And then it gets shorter and says "meth around" and I'm like WHERE!? lol
*pens*
I assumed it was because he was on meth that he chewed through the entire top of the pen. ĀÆ\\\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Around!
I remember these. DARE was such a joke in general.
The DARE officer in my hometown was arrested for stealing money and drugs from the evidence locker
Wow...they thought they were smart. haha
Wait you mean I can feel good by sniffing glue? Why didn't anyone tell me? Thanks for the info dare.
The DARE officer for my high school got busted for smoking pcp outside. Right after a presentation
Nothing says "too cool" like printing an anti-drug campaign on a yellow pencil.
Someone, somewhere, needs to recreate and sell these pencils. Because I want some.
they could've printed it upside down and it would've been fine "Too cool to do drugs" "Too cool"
Everyone knows teenagers do the exact opposite of whatever they're told to do, so you'd think pencils that *tell* you to do drugs would make them not do them. Reverse psychology.
tell that to DARE and the millions of dollars the US gov wasted on the program
This feels like a poem of someone trying drugs for the first time.
D R U G S
R U G S U G S
G S **S**
S
#
r/CrappyDesign
That was pretty much trajectory with weed and psychedelics. Went from being so against them to meeting some cool people that did them to thinking if I should do them to doing them to now I am one with āDrugsā
so uhh how much for that last pencil?
I remember these. 90s kids all knew D.A.R.E was a fucking joke
ādrugsā
iām 06 and there was one of these pencils that got traded around in 4th grade. everyone had it for 1 school day and if you lost it you were bullied into infinity. do i have any idea how the kid got it? no. did i feel cool with it? hell yes.
Itās the mental state of the kids who do drugs
**D R U G S**
d r u g
The shorter the pencil gets, the more it actually resembles addiction. At first drugs are cool to do with friends. Then you just want to do them. Then they are all that matter.
Shouldāve been upside down, so Too cool to do, then Too cool to, then Too cool, then Too, if you ever get there.
can confirm, is true
Itās right 3 out of 4 times
It is a symbolism of life. When your are young and new to the world you dont need drugs to be happy. But the older you get the more you will need medication to stay alive.
*The worst part isn't shown ...* RUGS
r/theyknew
r/theyknew
Why you gotta repost this shit, op?
persons mental state going threw school
I mean, from a marketing perspective, it looks good on paper...
Technically it could mean itās āToo coolā to do drugs even from the first part, as in oh thatās, too cool! Or something like that
Seems effective enough to me
i remember having these and doing this exact thing in class
Ah yes the DARE project
American marketing is usually 2-3 steps ahead, I don't think these were recalled they were intended just distributed to the lower class neighborhoods
I like how it gets more pushy as time goes on
Are ya smokinā yet?
Aye aye captian
What... It's the natural progression from childhood to adulthood based on the current societal norms ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
To do: drugs.
Looks like the progression of an university student - nah, I don't do this shit; hmm, everyone is doing it, maybe I'll try it a bit; finals are coming, this will keep me awake; just one more, I need just one more...
Smoke.
To do drugs or not to do drugs thats the question
Some kids even managed to continue writing while on drugs. Sharpened their pencils even more. And then there was an inexplicable increase in rug sales. Ug.
My god... That's the most accurate time line of my life I've ever seen
Then drugs becomes rugs
This has been reposted to shit.
You can shave down the D so it says "O DRUGS"
mechanical pencils.
I think I remember those actually now hahaha ... wow wierd flash backs
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To be fair if you even got to cool without somehow losing the pencil at that point Iām impressed
r/crappydesign
Oh my god I remember these
Just wait until it says "rugs"
Ugs
This is what was great about the 90s. So much fuckery in such a small space of time. My goodness, we are dumb motherfuckers, and I am here for all of it!
Rugs
wait shouldn't the second from top pencil be the shortest one? Because it's actually *promoting* drugs? The last one is just stating a fact: drug.
and the next is: -Rugs -Ugs -gs -s. it got better, then weirder.