After last week's Back to School post, I had school supplies on the brain. This post could have easily been about Trapper Keepers and how sweet those beastly Velcro folders were, but instead I wanted to get specific. Specifically, Yikes! pencils.
Yikes, as you may recall, were sweet multi-colored, crazy patterned pencils. They had weird erasers that were strange colors, green and yellow tips and some had different feels with zig-zag patterns and such.
Some of them even changed colors when you wrote. Still, the bread and butter were the ones that changed different colors when your sharpened them. I mean, yea, it was just multi-colored wood product slammed into once pencil, but it seemed magical at the time. A green pencil for one week, a yellow one for the next! Wooo!
I don't even know why these were popular. I guess making any type of school thing "cool" works, but these just seem pretty gay to me now.
But back in the 90s they were certainly sweet. Writing with a regular No. 2? Boring. You needed a swirly red and yellow with a purple eraser to complete that worksheet. You could maybe even store your Yikes pencils in your trapper keeper. Now that's a beastly student.
The other underrated thing about Yikes! was the exclamation point. Which can first, Yikes! or Yahoo!..? Did Yahoo! rip off Yikes! or vice versa? It looks awfully similar with the Y, doesn't it? A true mystery, no doubt.
As always, leave any memories in the comment section.
--Nick
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Can I just say that the throw backs are the best . . . I think everyone absolutely loves it . . . your senior skit had a combination of them all and it was the best thing ever, anyone ever get that thing on tape to throw that up here?
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