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

Perhaps you are ready now to open your life to God.

Slouching toward Bethlehem, huh, sir?

Inside of the bronze ball there's a lead weight that is free swinging on an axle that's on two bearings that pass in between, across it,

Lead is the axis to this pencil

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

When will you finally pray with your own words... and not for life eternal?

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

Pencil size

I wish you a good journey.

Whose pencil is this?

There you go.

Miniature traces its roots to the Latin, lt i gt minium lt i gt , which meant, red lead .

How long is this pencil?

Sharpen your pencil.

I need colored pencils.

I need coloured pencils.

For our prayers.

Pencil

My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.

Whose pencil is this?

I think I'd better taste it myself before you have it at lunch.

Dressed like that?

We could use some of that. Yeah.

So I say sure, do all of the work.

Whose pencil is this?

It's zinc.

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.

You're welcome. Hey Taylor, can I borrow your pencil sharpener?

What do you take me for, a fresh man?

ROMEO Good morrow, father!

Most of the things we see,

How many pencils do you have?

That's my pencil.

No, you go ahead and do it for me, pete.

With a bigger one, you make a bigger one.

BF This guy, this guy invented air.

DH I think so, that's right.

'Listen to my prayer.

It worked. Jesus answered my prayers.

That's a wire running down the middle, and not only is it a wire, if you take that piano circuit, you can thumbtack into the middle of a pencil, and you can lay out wire on the page, too, and get electrical current to run through it.

What's inside?

I'd say zinc.

The point of the pencil has become dull.

These are my pencils.