A teacher in my school would keep empty or "dead" pens in a box and would sometimes pick one up and use it to see if it had possibly started working again or "come back to life."
Great for Back to School lessons and lectures about bringing school supplies to school. Might show it the first week of school. Thanks for all your hard work, Taylor. You make teachers seem cool.
Very Seussean in the best possible way. I've been watching all of Mr. Mali's videos (whom I have recently discovered for myself) and I do believe he is Brilliant! (yes, with a capital B.)
I have SO been that girl during classes. I have multiple pens--the way I sort my notes is different pages have different inks, each ink signals a different class.
Wonderful, wonderful work. I love your poetry. I had the pleasure of seeing you in person at East central University in Oklahoma. I enjoyed every moment of it. I've read the book I got at that show many, many times, and as soon as I get the funds, I plan on buying a few more!
I actually seemed to be one of the few students in my class that brought their own pens and pencils to school. I became so used to having to lend them out I just bought a lot of coloured ones "this one's for Bob, this one's for Melissa, this one's for jacob...etc etc." Became a running gag in my class too...apparently I was a blue and black girl which cracked them up.
I have like 20 pens on me at all times, I admit it! But they are all usable and they all work and I give them out like candy, never expecting them back.
@TheDakotaDawn no I work in aproducedepartment.. Thebox cutteer is constantly used. The sharppie is forr inventory labels and thhe pen iss for listing what needs filled when making carts to run and also writing down the product that we throw away for record keeping purposes
I got a signed copy of his poetry book 'What Learning Leaves' because I won an online photo caption contest somehow. But I'm not here to gloat; just to say if you see that book, its worth getting!
Reminds me I only have one ballpoint left for lending and that ones from France so I don't want to lend it for long and risk loosing it...I need more pens.
i think you should know, mr. mali, that after watching this video, i said "Genius!" Unprepared would definitely be the way to go if you have all that trouble!
haha, one thinks of poetry as too deep and hard to understand sometimes...but this is something u can compare too...and its deep in a sense but easy to understand
It doesn't matter if there were only 18 pens listed or whatever, because at the end he says, "I think she went on but I couldn't have cared. I decided it was better to go unprepared." So she likely kept talking about more pens but he wasn't listening.
My case is packed with pens except they're all done and I carry them cause well I don't know its just hard to get rid of something your always used to seeing, yes I get easily attached to obects
I actually used to lend out pens and pencils all the time because I kept all kinds of them in my purse. Then I started not getting them back, which really ticked me off, because I actually used some of them a lot. So I just ended up saying "sorry dude I don't have a pen/pencil, this is my only one." Because if you're not going to give it back, I'm not going to give it to you.
@piewackett1 I'm not sure if you're joking or not. First off it's 'dude,' not 'dood' (I should cite Mali's proofreading poem). All he was doing was making a point about how girls do tend to do say 'I have millions of pens but the one you want is the one I'm going to use and all the rest are crap' (I've observed my own classmates doing this) and turning it into humor. It's not about despising women. It's just poking a little fun at the silly things girls do.
@piewackett1 offended by this rant, after watching it 2 times again, I see what you mean by him being sexist towards girls. But you have to admit, this guy is a freaking genius.
@piewackett1 Well, if you're a girl and you're offended by this video, I can probably understand where you're coming from. But you shouldn't take this video so seriously, what he said in this video doesn't apply to everyone. But it's true! There's always the one girl who has sixteen sacks full of pens while everyone else has none :P But, all aside, I found his speaking style funny. Not because it was supposedly sexist, but because it was legitimately funny. But I get what you mean when you feel
@lovelylostlady Lol now that I think about it, it's pretty true. I'm the first type, and my boyfriend is the second. And it is a curse! He loses all my pens... >.
