If red paint is the cheapest paint available, why are cheap pencils painted yellow?

[Bucky]

I suspect the illuminati have a hand in this.

[guillaumeb]

1. Red paint had more lead in it.

People have a habit of holding pencils in the mouth.

And yes, I am a member of the Illuminati.

[Sanity Claws]

17. Can you get me in?

I want to destroy the Illuminati from within.

[guillaumeb]

18. As long as you sound sincere, and you do,

you simply have to go to the secret sign-in site.

[Sanity Claws]

19. Great! PM me with the secret site

BTW, did you have to pass as a reptilian to get in? I have to work on my reptile imitation.

[guillaumeb]

27. I forgot to ask:

You are cold blooded, correct?

[Sanity Claws]

30. Sorry. I am hot-blooded, way beyond just warm-blooded.

In fact my blood has been boiling since last November.

[guillaumeb]

32. I understand the boiling blood, but sadly, you do not qualify. eom

[ollie10]

26. They stopped putting lead in paint in 1978 nt

[guillaumeb]

28. Pencils were invented prior to 1978. eom

[ollie10]

29. Well houses were too....

Yet, if you sell one built prior to 1978, you are supposed to disclose about lead based paint.

If your house was built 1978 or after, you don't have to because they took lead out of paint then.

I would assume that this applies to pencils too. In any case, when something is invented makes no difference. When were houses invented?

[guillaumeb]

31. Lead is still used in some paints.

And imported pencils are another matter.

[ollie10]

33. can you confirm that pencils have lead based paint on them (domestic)?

Please show link and source.

I find it hard to believe otherwise.

[guillaumeb]

35. I stated imported products.

And lead is allowed domestically in certain types of paints.

[ollie10]

37. You didn't mention imported in your originial post.....

.....neither have you presented any evidence that lead based paint is used for pencils

[MLAA]

2. And the infowars asshole can prove it.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Yellow paint is cheaper in China and the cheapest pencils are made there.

That's my theory, and I'm sticking with it.

[DetlefK]

4. To better kill the Green Lantern. His weaknesses are wood and the color Yellow.

[FSogol]

9. So, his most fierce enemy is Big Bird? Or the Doppler effect?

[Bucky]

11. OH MY GOD!!

*boom* goes my brain

[marylandblue]

5. The yellow pencil from pencils.com

Who'd have thought there would a website just for pencils.

https://pencils.com/why-are-pencils-yellow/

THE YELLOW PENCIL
Pencils have been painted yellow ever since the 1890s. And that bright color isn’t just so you can find them on your desk more easily! In fact, the yellow pencil has a much deeper history than you might expect.

During the 1800s, the best graphite in the world came from China. American pencil makers wanted a special way to tell people that their pencils contained Chinese graphite.

In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty and respect. American pencil manufacturers began painting their pencils bright yellow to communicate this “regal” feeling and association with China. However, according to Henry Petroski’s history of the pencil, the European producer Koh-I-Noor was the first to introduce a yellow pencil.

The rest, as they say, is history. Today, a majority of basic hexagonal graphite writing pencils sold in the United States are painted yellow and what was once perceived as “regal” has now become “common”. For more information on this topic visit WoodChuck’s Timberlines blog post The Myth of the Yellow Pencil.

[jmowreader]

6. To show they contain the best graphite

https://pencils.com/why-are-pencils-yellow/

[underpants]

7. Yeah and how does my toaster know when it's plugged in?

Seriously how does it know that?

[DetlefK]

12. Well, how do *YOU* know whether you are plugged in?

[underpants]

13. From my blinking green light

Duh!


What's the deal with the toaster?

[FSogol]

8. It is 2017. Red was the cheapest paint in the 19th century. Get a calendar, dude, your time travel

skills are weak.

BTW, they are yellow to denote imported Chinese graphite. Yellow pencils were a symbol of quality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[doc03]

10. I don't know about that I paid $500

extra for my red car.

[blogslut]

22. I read somewhere that cops pull red cars over more than other color cars.

[doc03]

34. That's true they don't like bright colors nt

[Mendocino]

14. Yellow shows up better than red.

Easier for kids to see, they are always dropping them on the ground.

Here's a question, why are barns red?

[Ptah]

15. Leftover paint from the pencil factory?

[Orrex]

25. "Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars"

So sez Smithsonian

[tblue37]

16. Because the best graphite for the leads was mined in China, and Americans associated yellow with

Chinese people, so yellow was chosen. (Poor quality graphite breaks too easily.)

[surrealAmerican]

20. Surely they're yellow...

... in order to match the school bus.

[malthaussen]

21. What's a pencil?

Some kind of exotic keyboard?

-- Mal

[blogslut]

23. All I know is I bought some Ticonderoga Black pencils...

and they have the best damned erasers I've ever used.

[Orrex]

24. Because after you write something, it can be red by everyone

Not yellowed. Duh.

[Optical.Catalyst]

36. It is easier to find a lost pencil if it is red rather than yellow

Those crafty pencil manufacturers just want people to have to buy more pencils when they can't find the ones that are lost.