Jerry Hollister (Logan Ramsey) makes a complaint about Art Donovan (Jack Bannon). Lou (Ed Asner) is skeptical. From the Lou Grant episode “Friends” (December 28, 1981):
Hollister: “He was wigged out. He kept threatening me with a pencil. I just wanted him to get out of there.”Other Lou Grant posts
Grant: “A pencil. An HB, or a no. 2?”
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[Lead varies: one maker’s no. 2 might make a line similar to another maker’s no. 1. But HB and no. 2 are synonymous. HB: “hard black (denoting a medium hardness)” (OED).]
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Only true pencil connoisseurs would ask that?
Those fountain pen or ball point ink people are scratching their heads?
Good laugh for a Monday morning!
Kirsten
I think Lou’s being sarcastic. In other words, the complaint is inane. Or it could be that the writers thought HB and no. 2 are different. Another bit of dialogue, which I’ll post soon, makes me think that there must have been occasional conversations about pencils in the writers’ room.
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