The greatest pencil to grace god'sgreen Earth. No scantron or graph paper stands a chance if you use one of these bad boys.
A black version of the Ticonderoga is the rarest pencil known to man. It is the only pencil greater than the regulation color type. Removing one of these from the roof of a library is the equivalent of Arthur removing the sword in the stone. And, as you may already know, the Ticonderoga is mightier than the sword.
Jimmy Jam - Hey bros, do you have a writing utensil for this scantron test?
Johnny Ticonderoga - I got a Dixon Ticonderoga Pencil, but no, you can't borrow it.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)