Lead is the axis to this pencil

Pencil

You know those fat, old TVs that people are chucking for high def flat screens?

It's zinc.

Your eyes, and then your brain, are collecting all sorts of information about the pencil its size, color, shape, distance, and more.

Pencil size

Have you got lead in there? Let me, uncle Vova.

What's inside?

I'd say zinc.

But there's nothing wrong with the faces.

New paper. Have some pencils.

Whose pencil is this?

Latin'plumbum 'for Lead

Do you think the zinc really works?

My window?

I am of course quoting from a famous essay by Leonard Read, the economist in the 1950s, called I, Pencil in which he wrote about how a pencil came to be made, and how nobody knows even how to make a pencil, because the people who assemble it don't know how to mine graphite, and they don't know how to fell trees and that kind of thing.

I've lost my pencil.

I have lost my pencil.

This is a pencil.

That is a pencil.

I'm sorry I have no pencil to write with.

I'm sorry that I have no pencil to write with.

There you go.

Get the window.

Put down your pencil.

Lead bends easily.

Whose pencil is this?

How long is this pencil?

Write it in pencil.

Sharpen your pencil.

I need colored pencils.

I need coloured pencils.

Do any of you have a pencil?

Does anybody have a pencil?

Does everybody have a pencil?

There's a chance that tap water may contain harmful substances like chlorine and lead.

Phil. Phil, are you okay?

Our high school reunion thing?

What's going on with the window?

Which windows?

I've lost my pencil.

I have lost my pencil.

Have you got a pencil?

Please write with a pencil.

How many pencils do you have?