7/28/10

Some days I would just rather use a pen.


We were working on a math activity in summer school yesterday, when Susie said, “Mrs. Smythe, would you PLEASE tell Sam that it doesn’t matter HOW tall his pencil is? He keeps saying his pencil is the tallest.”


George, “Yeah. It doesn’t matter whose pencil is the tallest, as long as it’s sharpened.”




Ain’t that the truth.

40 comments:

  1. JoanieJuly 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM

    Seems like all boys are in a competition, doesn't it?

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  2. JoanieJuly 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM

    OMG!!! FIRST!!

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  3. Jules AFJuly 28, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    hahahaha awesome.

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  4. Rick DaleyJuly 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM

    I have many replies going through my head right now. Not one is appropriate.

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  5. Finding FantasyJuly 28, 2010 at 12:46 PM

    Now that is a classic!

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  6. Mimi LenoxJuly 28, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    I am laughing so hard right now I cannot formulate an answer. And now I have a permanent visual of classroom pencil sharpeners that will forever stay in my pencil brain.
    Thanks a LOT!

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  7. Elizabeth @ My Life, Such as it is...July 28, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    George is one smart cookie! Times like that you think he'll be the next Bill Gates and then ...

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  8. Dawn Parsons SmithJuly 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    Classic! You really need to make a book filled with these adorable schoolroom anecdotes!

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  9. AnonymousJuly 28, 2010 at 2:54 PM

    I just love a good metaphor! Kids are full of them and they don't even know it.

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  10. noexcusesJuly 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM

    Perfect comeback! I'll be you get those all the time! I'm laughing so hard my big belly is shaking!!!

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  11. Notes From ABroadJuly 28, 2010 at 3:18 PM

    So it isn't how sharp your pen is but how you draw with it ?

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  12. Robin Dodd PhotographyJuly 28, 2010 at 3:20 PM

    LOL!! Have you seen the Nashville Weather Penis...

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  13. AnonymousJuly 28, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    Awesome! I said something that could have been simmilar the other day coming home from a field trip but now of course I can't remember what it was! Darn old age

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  14. SkylersDadJuly 28, 2010 at 5:14 PM

    Years from now they will just shift from tallest to longest, and there you go.

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  15. AnonymousJuly 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM

    George sounds like the sharpest pencil in the drawer!

    DI

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  16. Irish GumboJuly 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    George has a point :)

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  17. BodaciousboomerJuly 28, 2010 at 5:48 PM

    They start comparing them at a really early age don't they?

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  18. ChiTown GirlJuly 28, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    OMFG!! I HATE that! My kids argue about that on a daily basis, usually several times a day. It makes me NUTS!!!

    When they aren't fighting over the tallest pencil, they're fighting over which eraser is the biggest! Freakin' kids!!!

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  19. GigiJuly 28, 2010 at 6:20 PM

    OMG! I love that!

    I'm telling you - that George is *going* places!

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  20. MissyJuly 28, 2010 at 6:58 PM

    LOL! Yeah, I would rather be sharp than tall...

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  21. J.J. in L.A.July 28, 2010 at 10:31 PM

    I get the feeling that Sam is going to grow up telling girls that this (holding thumb and forefinger a 1/2 inch apart) is 6 inches. : P

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  22. Expat mumJuly 28, 2010 at 11:37 PM

    Yeah OK but, who's is the sharpest? Ha - gottya!

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  23. JennieJuly 29, 2010 at 12:16 AM

    I KNEW IT! Boys really do learn that crap in kindergarten!

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  24. Mom To A Four Year OldJuly 29, 2010 at 8:14 AM

    Lol! Sam and my daughter are so related. Sometimes I wish I could just see how she is in her class because she hates losing, even to non-contests such as the tallest pencil.

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  25. JoanJuly 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM

    LOVE George!

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  26. Everyday GoddessJuly 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM

    I love a tall pencil.

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  27. CarrieJuly 29, 2010 at 2:17 PM

    you really gotta wonder where they come up with this stuff :) Oh, just think of the fun these kids will have when they GET innuendos

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  28. Teresa DawnJuly 29, 2010 at 3:16 PM

    Too cute :) I love listening to kids conversations!

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  29. lisahgoldenJuly 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM

    Hee! That guy has it right.

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  30. Melissa E.July 29, 2010 at 11:05 PM

    adorable! Of course, then they get into the battle of whose pencil is the sharpest.

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  31. WendyJuly 30, 2010 at 9:40 AM

    Irish Gumbo said,
    "George has a point."

    ...Get It?!?!
    Haa hahahaha!!!

    =-)

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  32. WendyJuly 30, 2010 at 9:40 AM

    Irish Gumbo said,
    "George has a point."

    ...Get It?!?!
    Haa hahahaha!!!

    =-)

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  33. DawnJuly 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM

    This is when we teachers sit back and snicker!

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  34. Anna Whiston-DonaldsonJuly 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    Hee Hee! Reminds me of how I have always pronounced both pin and pen the same way. At dinner when I was a teen I asked for a "pen" but it sounded, of course like "pin." My family asked for clarification and I said, dramatically, I need a P-E-N-I-S. Seemed funny at the time.

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  35. http://howtobecomeacatladywithoutthecats.blogspot.comJuly 31, 2010 at 1:40 PM

    I had a class one year that thought having the shortest pencil was the best! Lots of little fingers were sacrificed and I had to pry a lot of pencil stubs out of the sharpener!

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    Wow, it starts so early! Who knew.

    (Fellow volunteer: the one without the card. ;)

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