Eberhard Faber Mongols were on the job in the WJM newsroom during the first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After that, it’s Dixon Ticonderogas and no-name pencils. A great loss for Mongol fans.
Perhaps one of the writers was using a Ticonderoga when working on the episode “Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady” (March 3, 1973). The premise: Rhoda (Valerie Harper) has borrowed money from Mary to open a plant shop, and she’s taking her time about paying back. The reason: she’s secretly using her earnings to buy Mary a new car, a yellow Mustang convertible. Rhoda knows that Mary has had her eye on a Mustang. But it turns out — uh-oh — that Mary hates yellow. She and Rhoda and Georgette (Georgia Engel) sit in the newly purchased car in the dealer’s showroom:
Georgette: “Yellow’s a lovely color, Mary. It’s the color of the sun, and wheat fields.”Related reading
Mary: “Yeah.”
Rhoda: “Ticonderoga pencils.”
Georgette: “And daffodils, and lemons — whoops, I shouldn’t have said that.”
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Thought you may like this ... https://woodclinched.com/2014/06/13/mary-tyler-moore-sharpening-pencils/
Yes, I do. Thanks, Joe. I think that but went right past me, before the Mongols made me take notice of the show’s pencil thematics. Those look like Mirados (?) to me — they’ve also been discontinued.
a dixon primer
https://archive.org/details/DixonPencilGeography/mode/2up
Thanks, Anon. Talk about indoctrination — I hope Ron DeSantis doesn’t find out about this primer.
And my previous comment should read “bit,” not “but.”
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