30 kg of Pencils
I’d like an eraser, two notepads and 30 kg of pencils, please.
Also: notice the price difference between the first item, a dozen Ticonderogas for £2.69, and the third item, the same product for £19.99.
Startlingly expensive. Yes, I think if I were to tell you how much more expensive it was it would be fair to say that you would be startled. [1]Freely adapted from Chapter 27 of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, 1987.
(By the way, that’s 643.123% more expensive [2]Said Wolfram..)
PS: Find out more..
- about the Korean Ticonderoga in this 2010 blog post,
- about an old Ticonderoga in this 2014 blog post,
- about the Ticonderoga’s German cousin (from the same Italian mother) in this blog post,
- and about a very unique Ticonderoga in this blog post (from Contrapuntalism).
References
| ↑1 | Freely adapted from Chapter 27 of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, 1987. |
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| ↑2 | Said Wolfram. |