If one wears spectacles, it's very hard to keep a pen or pencil behind an ear - a convenient lodging place.

Hence "Pentacles" - spectacles with sidepieces that have clips to hold a ballpoint pen on one side and a pencil (0.5mm propelling) on the on the other.

That's it.
-- 8th of 7, Sep 25 2002

Reciprocally: http://www.readingg...ld.com/microvision/
Keep your glasses in your pen. [sild, Sep 25 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Tenously, for looking in the distance and keeping a pen:
Biroculars.

Anyway. Tidy idea. (+)
-- Jinbish, Sep 25 2002


// Biroculars //

Available in Japan. Ask for them by name ....
-- 8th of 7, Sep 25 2002


Pockets?

Anyway, could become the new geek standard.
-- phoenix, Sep 25 2002


Those would be "pocktacles," [Phoenix]. Their design could be be said to be "apocktaclyptic."
-- bristolz, Sep 25 2002


would they help you spell?
-- po, Sep 25 2002


So what are tentacles, spectacles for tent pegs and poles?
-- FarmerJohn, Sep 25 2002


Special exam edition: Testacles.

Sorry, had to be done...
-- sild, Sep 25 2002


but it felt ooo, sooo gooood...
-- senatorjam, Sep 25 2002


Jean Reno has foneshades.
-- General Washington, Sep 25 2002


a) But wouldn't you have to take your glasses off when you write?
b) People still use pens?
-- waugsqueke, Sep 25 2002


I need one for my graphics tablet pen (sticks tongue out at waugs)
-- yamahito, Sep 25 2002


I use a chisel and slabs of marble, papyrus if it's just a quick note.
-- BinaryCookies, Sep 25 2002


[blissmiss] I don't get what pig farmers do with their pens when they take their glasses off...
-- hollajam, Sep 25 2002


Dear John,
Thanx ever sow much for the pentacles. The glasses are perfect for my daily double of slop & schnaps. The pig pen is just the thing for keeping the little porkies out of trouble.
Your Pen Pal, Miss Piggy
-- FarmerJohn, Sep 26 2002


Duh. Jeez! Dag Nabbit.

I think I just stepped in the shinola.
-- hollajam, Sep 26 2002


I wear glasses and keep my pen behind my ear. I haven't found it a problem so far. Fumbling around with clips on the side of my glasses every time I wanted to write something would just make me more of a laughing stock than I am already.

I'd go for something that can be brought into action a bit more quickly. A flick-pen perhaps?
-- DrBob, Sep 26 2002


Nice link Sleepy....I thought of adding a similar one when this first appeared, but then decided against it
-- Marassa, Dec 25 2002


I think we know that.
-- angel, Jan 28 2003


// a friend of [waugsqueke], perhaps? //

"Dragons don't have any friends. The nearest thing a Dragon has to a friend is an enemy that's still alive" (Terry Pratchett, "Guards ! Guards !").

Additional idea: Maybe the pen could be held on by some of that flexible self-adhesive magnetic strip stuff.
-- 8th of 7, Jan 29 2003



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