h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

don't constitute "litter". First, they are tiny. Second, the wee tiny organisms turn them into lovely compost.

But if everyone did it... They're only not litter when they're not on pavement, apparently.

If I may drop in very briefly ...

During my brief visit to the UK and Ireland, I noted that a lot of properties like cedar or pine mulch around tree bases and flowering beds. A natural place to off-load small collections of pencil shavings, so long as not too much graphite is included.

True. Unfortunately, many pencils - especially the cheap ones - contain things in the paint that you really don't want leaching into the ground in any significant amounts

Ah yes, the first stuff a kid swallows when chewing on them. Good point though ...

Byeee

Well officer Mal, I cannot tell a lie...I dropped those pencil shavings under all that litter.

Hah! I have photographic evidence that it ain't so. Now just need to add the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is...

Oh dear, my pencil appears to be blunt.

And sorry to see you go, Nick!

moving slowly away...

for it! She has a !

Now that is just being weird.

Yep

*returns long enough to place a large placard near the mound of pencil shavings ... very mod and very ...*

[You can get anything that you want ...]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [over there at ... ]


[Alice's Restaurant]

*polishes badge for one-handed-ink-cartridge-replacing-while-driving-sideways-at-stupid-speeds*

Sideways and downwards

And at the end of that drive, I emphatically state that I do not want a pickle either !!!

*waits to hear the burbling of poor King Bomba's noggin ... *

His head is a Jabberwock?

*does his absolute best to NOT look totally lost and befuddled at that comment, and dusts a few piccies about the place*

After all, the Jabberwock "Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!"

Lewis Carroll invented the word.

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html