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DetlefK

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

Reply to underpants (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 22, 2017, 02:18 PM

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If red paint is the cheapest paint available, why are cheap pencils painted yellow? [View all] Bucky Sep 2017 OP

Red paint had more lead in it. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #1

Can you get me in? Sanity Claws Sep 2017 #17

As long as you sound sincere, and you do, guillaumeb Sep 2017 #18

Great! PM me with the secret site Sanity Claws Sep 2017 #19

I forgot to ask: guillaumeb Sep 2017 #27

Sorry. I am hot-blooded, way beyond just warm-blooded. Sanity Claws Sep 2017 #30

I understand the boiling blood, but sadly, you do not qualify. eom guillaumeb Sep 2017 #32

They stopped putting lead in paint in 1978 nt ollie10 Sep 2017 #26

Pencils were invented prior to 1978. eom guillaumeb Sep 2017 #28

Well houses were too.... ollie10 Sep 2017 #29

Lead is still used in some paints. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #31

can you confirm that pencils have lead based paint on them (domestic)? ollie10 Sep 2017 #33

I stated imported products. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #35

You didn't mention imported in your originial post..... ollie10 Sep 2017 #37

And the infowars asshole can prove it. MLAA Sep 2017 #2

Yellow paint is cheaper in China and the cheapest pencils are made there. Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #3

To better kill the Green Lantern. His weaknesses are wood and the color Yellow. DetlefK Sep 2017 #4

So, his most fierce enemy is Big Bird? Or the Doppler effect? FSogol Sep 2017 #9

OH MY GOD!! Bucky Sep 2017 #11

The yellow pencil from pencils.com marylandblue Sep 2017 #5

To show they contain the best graphite jmowreader Sep 2017 #6

Yeah and how does my toaster know when it's plugged in? underpants Sep 2017 #7

Well, how do *YOU* know whether you are plugged in? DetlefK Sep 2017 #12

From my blinking green light underpants Sep 2017 #13

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

I don't know about that I paid $500 doc03 Sep 2017 #10

I read somewhere that cops pull red cars over more than other color cars. blogslut Sep 2017 #22

That's true they don't like bright colors nt doc03 Sep 2017 #34

Yellow shows up better than red. Mendocino Sep 2017 #14

Leftover paint from the pencil factory? Ptah Sep 2017 #15

"Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars" Orrex Sep 2017 #25

Because the best graphite for the leads was mined in China, and Americans associated yellow with tblue37 Sep 2017 #16

Surely they're yellow... surrealAmerican Sep 2017 #20

What's a pencil? malthaussen Sep 2017 #21

All I know is I bought some Ticonderoga Black pencils... blogslut Sep 2017 #23

Because after you write something, it can be red by everyone Orrex Sep 2017 #24

It is easier to find a lost pencil if it is red rather than yellow Optical.Catalyst Sep 2017 #36