Who here remembers pencil fighting in grade school?

I still remember my best pencil.

Pencil fighting was all out war in elementary school in the late 80s.

When regular fights got boring, we would go five licks to one against the giant red jumbos.

I'd usually bust this out and they'd move on without even trying

We called it pencil break. Can’t think of the names now, but you knew if you had a decent chance depending on the name brand.

Yep. Pencil fights and paper football led to a few real fights.

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There's a league for that

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Some amazing names in that league.

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The Ticonderoga Top Ten.

1. The San Juan Island Savage

2. The Librarian

3. Balls Deep

4. The Graphite Sheik

5. The Yellow Dragon

6. The Bird

7. Dr. Nefarious

8. Han Sanitizer, Germaphobic Spaceman

9. The Hundred Dollar Man Thaddeus P. Skrilla

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We used to do this. Except it was with our penises.

My dad was a bit of a prankster and did wood and metal work as hobbies. When he found out about the game he built me a super pencil. He drilled out the "lead" from the eraser end with an aircraft bit stopping about an inch before the end so it would look and write like a normal pencil. He then glued in a tungsten welding rod and replaced the eraser. It was near invulnerable and the added mass make it a pencil cracker.

I was undefeated for a long time until the wood literally exploded off the tungsten. Then every boy wanted my dad to build them a super pencil.

Was more of a bloody knuckles guy myself

We called it Pencil Pop.

Any time you saw a kid with the composite pencils (recycled wood) you knew you had an easy round.