Simon Dunn

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What's the opposite of a pencil?

What’s The Opposite Of A Pencil?

Time once more for another episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. This week, we come to conclusions about photography, about washing machines, about ice cream scoops, and about pencils.

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Something fun that happened is this.

I can’t be sure, but I think most of this is going on off air, and the international feed I got it from doesn’t have the bumpers, jingles, and idents. But I giggle each time I hear it, because he’s doing what I do when I get words stuck in my head.

What's the opposite of a pencil?

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