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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pics or it didn't happen.

(Seriously, I'd like to see the source of this story. Googling "Tim the pencil" doesn't bring up anything related.)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This exact joke is used in a Community episode, but I never saw it attributed to a professor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the commenter wrote a contextually plausible yet wrong comment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm gonna break them in half

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Just sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing