Morbid Pencil Boxes

[Brenna]

There is now the potential that we might be called in to investigate a person's office supplies

http://www.beingmarcecko.com/blog/2008/11/10/carbon-copy-rip.html

Way cool. Although this is still the way I'd like to be disposed of.

http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/whatisLG2006.aspx

Bling > Pencil

[PPI Tim]

It should be easy to talk to the dead person who now a pencil.
You can just ask a question and the pencil will write down the answer.
The only problem I can see is sharpening the pencil. How and where would you do that?
One other thing.
Would the dead pencils come earsers?l

[PPI Tracy]

The sad thing is that people are actually led to believe that it is truly a part of their loved one.  Morbid.

[PPI Tim]

Yes quite sad. You think you have part of a love one when actually all you have is a number two pencil.
Well it least you can fill job applications.

[PPI Karl]

This puts me in mind of one of the fountain pen advertisements in Max's pen collecting catalogs:  allegedly, you can get a pen with some of Abraham Lincolns DNA in the cap jewel (that part at the very end of the pen, where the clip fastens).  These pens are not tatty, either--nor cheap.  Someone went to great trouble to produce a pen that makes you (and I quote) "own a piece of the Great Emancipator."  How the hell do you prove Lincoln's DNA is in there?!  And, what constitutes 'DNA' to the schlomo that produces the pen?  Do I really want to know?  Is it just some Lincoln byproduct (like that tele-scam-gelist who sells the kerchiefs that wipe the sweat off his brow)?  Gross!