# So, can I borrow your book? Howsabout a pencil? A pen? Paper? Scantron? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844 "2003-10-01T03:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/21 "2003-10-01T18:38:06Z")
You leave the bananas out of this, **TwistofFate**. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/22 "2003-10-01T18:50:40Z")
**Einmon** , I wouldn’t give someone as self-centered as you the sweat off my balls. I don’t feel inclined to use a winkie in the context of a scrotum-related post, so please be assured that this was meant to be received as entirely tongue-in-ch… err, humourously. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/23 "2003-10-01T20:49:51Z")
There wouldn’t be half as many simulposts if the servers weren’t so slow. And I suppose the simulposts are slowing the servers, so it’s a catch-22. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/24 "2003-10-01T21:03:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > **… Scantron®… Liquid Paper®… Scantron®… Scantron®… Scantron®… Scantron®… Scantron®… Scantron®… Scantron®… Scantron®…** Well, this explains the docs for my G400. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/25 "2003-10-01T21:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Wow, I jumped into this thread to suggest that a dodecapost is a new record. > > However, I missed the top two of them. What the hell is that? qadecapost? > > I hate it when hamsters and newbies conspire to confound my vocabulary with their unlikely antics. \*\* 😛 ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/26 "2003-10-01T21:18:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerowyn \* > \*\*Well, this explains the docs for my G400. \*\* Nice that you remember, but I work in video, not graphics. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/27 "2003-10-01T21:59:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiff \* > \*\*I think they make models where you can stand up, too. \*\* Well, fuck. Now I have to go look up “Sybian.” . . . Oh, my. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/28 "2003-10-01T23:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Well, fuck. Now I have to go look up “Sybian.” > > . > . > . > > Oh, my. \*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/29 "2003-10-02T06:21:08Z")
Oooh! They have 'em for men now, too! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/30 "2003-10-02T15:32:17Z")
Do you have an order form … I mean cite … for that **arky29**? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/31 "2003-10-02T20:47:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*Unpossible? Threads like that embiggen us all! \*\* Maybe he was trying to send a sublminimal…subulimnal… sublimimabul…secret message? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/32 "2003-10-03T01:33:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > It’s “make-or-break” as far as Scantron® is concerned, for the Scantron® doesn’t mince words like an aging hippie professor grading papers one by one, the mind wandering as the acid flashbacks fade in and out like the breaking waves on a biological-waste-ridden Jersey shore. _“Careful, Johnny. Don’t step on the needle…”_ I’d like to nominate this for the 2003 Best Gibsonesque Prose on Message Board Award. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844/33 "2003-10-03T01:38:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Do you have an order form … I mean cite … for that **arky29**? \*\* [Linkety link!](http://www.sybian.com) And it’s not **arky** it’s **aryk**. No offense taken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-can-i-borrow-your-book-howsabout-a-pencil-a-pen-paper-scantron/204844.md?page=1)