Pencils or cheese?
I’ve asked nearly everyone I know, now I’m asking people I don’t know yet. Everyone, please give me your opinion 
Cheese, of course. Pencils can we used to write funnier stuff, but that’s only because cheese-pen technology hasn’t been perfected yet.
Farts.
I don’t know about that Hal, if they’ve perfected the cheeze pen holder, can the cheese pen be all that far behind?
My vote: pencils.
(If only because Zaphod found so many interesting things to do with them …)
Lucy
After an agonizing struggle, I’m going to have to say… cheese.
sniffle That was so hard…
Disagree. What about pencil-necked geeks and the infamous pencil-dicks? True, cheese has mold and holes and that whole smell thing going for it, but nothing says ‘gut-busting, piss-your-pants funny’ than a stubby #2 with a worn eraser.
Pencils. You’d be amazed at the silly things a bored student can do with a #2 Eberhard Faber.
Cheese.
It can be runny, smelly, full of holes, bait for mice, an insult to the French, and might even contain maggots.
i agree with “cheese”
it even SOUNDS funnier
I choose “pencil”, but I like to pronounce it “penkil” just to throw people off.
Mark
[John Cleese walks into a Pencil Shop]
“Have you got any pencils?”
“No.”
[John Cleese walks out of shop]
Sorry, I’m gonna have to go with cheese this time.
Mmmmm, cheese.
Venezuelan Beaver Pencils?
Count me in as another for cheese.
Photographers don’t ask you to “say pencils” when they take your picture.
When a joke is dumb, it’s not called “pencilly”… but it could be called “cheesy”.
“Cutting the pencil” is not funny… “cutting the cheese” may be funny, providing you are the one doing the cutting…
Cheese. One of the funniest foods ever.
[sub]just not as funny as kumquats…[/sub]
If you trace the etymology of the word “pencil” all the way back, you wind up with the Latin “peniculus,” which means “little penis,” – so naturally pencils are much funnier than cheese.
Cheese is good for you, though. It puts lead in your pencil.
Cheese. Definitely.
I have decided, however, that the funniest thing in the entire world is computers that speak Spanish. Seriously; next time you go to the ATM or some other machine that gives you the option, choose to get instructions in Spanish instead of English. It’s hilarious.
Cheese, no wait, umm yea, it’s cheese.
Cheese. Remember, Monty Python never did a “Pencil Shop” routine.
Interesting Question. It is without doubt cheese.
Pencils are just boring. Mr Mudd had a good point, but thats all pencils have going for them.
Cheese sounds funny. The types of cheese sound funny. (Roquefort.) There is a flying circus sketch with cheese. The French are called Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Still not convinced? Ok, consider this:
“A texan, a priest and a pencil walks into a bar.”
Mildly amusing at best. Not funny.
“A texan, a priest and A CHEESE walks into a bar.” Hahaha!
Much funnier.
Bonus question:
When vegans get their picture taken, do they say “soy-based cheese substitute”
Conclusion:
Cheese is far funnier, probably even one of the funniest foods. I wonder how high you have to go to get a funnier food. Maybe airplane peanuts can take it out. Or maybe it can go all the way to the reigning champ, banana.
Without having read the thread, I can categorically say: cheese.