Well that’s just great! one, ONE letter too many. (the subject)
Anyway, There’s never a fucking pen when we need done (at work)
We get a set (about 6). Within a few days they’re all gone.
No sodding forks either. plenty of knives. No forks. Plenty of pencils. No pens.
You store your writing instruments in marsupials?
Sure beats keeping your pen in a non-marsupial…
Elapsed time to the joke I was going to make, three minutes. I love this place.
Simple solution:
Remove the caps. I was taught to do this by a friend as a young teen, and I continue to do it to this day. Why? Because when people are done with a pen they usually attempt to cap it … though the saturation of thepen market with pens that have those buttons on top makes this sometimes impossible, what with no cap.
Alternately, you could try soaking them in vomit-soaked shit. That would certainly make them smell so rancid that nobody would even want to USE them. Problem solved!
[sub]2trew, what do you think is the elapsed time until lieu shows up?;)[/sub]
That has to be one of the funniest, even if inadvertant, thread titles I’ve seen all year. 
Oh. Yeah…
…I agree with the OP. Never can find a damn pen when I want one. Th’ little buggers migrate everywhere …
(so do 'roos, I s’pose.) 
iampunha, baiting is unsportsmanlike.
I can’t think of anything extremely witty to add here that hasn’t already been done.
But pulling electrified biros out of 'roos arseholes DID strike me as a very novel thread title. Kudos Lobbers.
Well, at home there is never any pens or pencils in the cup where they should be.
They always end up wedged in couch cushions or under the table or somewhere where I can’t find them. Our tape and tin foil does the same thing too. But they end up in the basement.
iampunha On the rare occasion that pens exist in our ‘office’ they are capless (99% of the pens we do have are second-hand. Meaning the caps were long lost in whichever other office we ‘aquired’ them from) As a result of this none of us think to re-cap the pens because we know they don’t have caps.
Also, maybe I am just a tiny little bit fussy, but there’s something about pens soaked in vomit-shit makes me slightly unenthusiastic about using them.
Nope. electricution is the only solution.
Roo: :eek:
Person attempting to remove electrified pen from Roo: :eek:
Wasn’t baiting. I merely remembered (as if one could really forget:)) that lieu is drawn to shit in a thread like flies are drawn to shit in nature. Given the “elapsed time” comment you made, I gathered the two together in one statement meant to amuse rather than draw someone into a thread for no reason.
[sub]What is the sound of one hand whooshing?:)[/sub]
I read the posts a few times, and as far as I can tell the first mention of shit was in your post. Vomit soaked shit no less.
That’s what I meant by baiting.
BTW, it’s whoo.
I once read the advice to have your pens personalized with, “This Is Not Your Pen.” So even if the person does walk off with it, they tend to return within minutes. Obviously this won’t work if everyone does it, but it’s a start.
What I used to do was buy one of those chained-down pens like they have in banks, and all visitors to my office got pointed to that pen. Other pens were stowed in drawers. It helped, at least.
I assumed “roo” was some sort of odd Britishism, like “I shagged a Bobby in the dustbin whilst pissed.”
Lob, are you buying second hand ballpoint pens from a man with three arms and two heads?
Just wondering, I lost his business card and need a contact number.
Several businesses in my area have adopted the practice of taping something like a plastic spoon or a small plastic flower to pens, something that will clearly remind the person using the pen that it isn’t theirs to put in their pocket and walk out with.
Can I have some of what you are having?
Given that he’s conducting business with a man who has two heads, one could say, in a sense, that he’s getting extra head.
I, for one, join you in your request:D
Do none of you people get Douglas Adams references? And you call yourself Dopers! Hmph!