09 May 08 The shortest pencil in the world? The things one can find in a seven year old’s pockets …
Well, Ashrita Furman may indeed be the Guinness Record holder for the world’s longest (and largest) pencil at 76 feet and 21,000 pounds…. but I think I found perhaps the shortest and smallest one!
Well, I suppose it’s a result of an indoctrination of not wasting resources…. (and an artistic bent too)…
Pencil found in pocket of a seven year old boy (ok, almost 8)…
Unfortunately there were no identifying markers on the writing instrument, so I can’t tag it with more specific make and model information. I suspect it will go for mid $xx,xxx on eBay in the next few months.
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that isn’t the worlds shortest pencil. My friend has one smaller but it doesn’t have an eraser…don’t know if that counts or not but its much smaller than that.
Sorry to tell you this, but my friend has a pencil 1.5 cm long WITH an eraser, metal, wood, and graphite. We tried to enter it somewhere but we couldn’t figure it out.
This defeats the purpose of this article!
!!! THAT’S ME!!! BY THE WAY MY PENCIL IS ACTUALLY 1.4 CM LONG… GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!
O SO-RRY
HAHA FOOL YOU THOUGHT YOU FOUND THE WORLD SHORTEST PENCIL I HAVE ABOUT 20 SHORTER THAN THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are a moron.
My friends make those on a daily basis.
HAHA LOSER
this is cool!
You should see mine. Its only 2cm (seriously)
Well, I have a pencil shorter than that. I was bored on some tuition class and started sharpening a pencil. No rubber, but wood. it is around 1.2 cm.
I’m serious, I had a few friends measure it. Though the colour of the wood is blackened and it has no label whatsoever, both ends sharpened into such size, it is definitely 1.2 ~ 1.3 cm, my friends measured it lots of times
i have a pencil less than 1\2 an inch long