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Are there any left Pecora? I'll take one. Will you accept my MFS or BBP shares in payment.

I am going to sell them to NASA. The US defense department was paying something like $650 for hammers and toilet seats a few years back. Juts imagine what NASA would pay for pencils.

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

What a funny thread. Need a good chuckle.