Description

If you like writing with a pencil, just like everyone used to do back in the days when the internet was nothing more than a Yorkshireman's fishing term. Or you adore facts, figures, trivia and the like. Oh, that's 99.9% of you, then! Well, you will adore this quirky bit of stationery.

The 3-Mile Pencil isn't, sadly, an incredibly long and cumbersome writing implement. (Quake at the size of the pencil case. Beware the giant sharpener. Cower at the girth of its shavings.) Rather, it's a pencil with precise markings along its side. When you use it, it slowly but surely gets shorter and shorter, and you can see how much and how far you've written. Cool, huh?

Calibrated for both words and miles, the 3-Mile Pencil gives you the perfect excuse to hit the pub and boast of your productivity in ways that will sound impressive.

Better than that, it will also give you the opportunity to spout random facts, something along the lines of this one: 'I could have drawn around a tennis court 70 times, but instead I wrote a truly massive shopping list.'

You could also reveal to your eager audience that, should they wish to copy out the complete works of Shakespeare by hand, then they'd only need invest in 22 of these nifty little nibs (as well as, quite possibly, a retainer for a world-renowned hand-cramp expert).