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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

The Pencil Sharpener Principle

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

4.8816 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Yes, Jack has done the thing you're not supposed to do with a pencil sharpener.  Plus--have you heard the one about how the State of California's ban on conducting business with 30 US states (over LGBTQ+ policies) helped to create the $1.7 Million public restroom in San Francisco?  

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slash bandwidth. We're right back to the pencil sharpener principle. It's one more thing.

1:01.9

Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. I know, I know the story you're about to tell about the

1:08.7

pencil sharpener, but it's kind of tough for me emotionally hearing this.

1:15.6

At one point as a child, for some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to stick my finger in a pencil sharpener.

1:22.3

I don't remember how old I was.

1:25.3

But anyway, I've got one finger that the fingernail on top still has white spots on there from that.

1:33.2

They never went away.

1:34.0

The fingernail continues to grow.

1:36.0

But the cuts that I put deep into my fingernail causing me great pain from the pencil sharpener still on my fingernail.

1:43.5

Do you think you're like seven or 17?

1:46.7

I was 28.

1:48.3

It was 31.

1:49.3

Yeah, I was more like seven, sure.

1:51.8

Yeah.

1:52.3

Well, we all do silly stuff like that.

1:54.7

You know what I've always wondered about?

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