Subject: Not So Sharp
TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) - A company is trying to erase an embarrassing
mistake it made on pencils bearing an anti-drug message. The pencils
carry the slogan: "Too Cool to Do Drugs." But a sharp-eyed
fourth-grader in northern New York noticed when the pencils are
sharpened, the message turns into "Cool to Do Drugs" then simply "Do
Drugs." As a result of the discovery by 10-year-old Kodi Mosier of
Ticonderoga Elementary School, The Bureau For At-Risk Youth of
Plainview, recalled the pencils. A new batch of pencils will have the
message written in the opposite direction. For pointing out the
botched message, Moiser earned his class a letter of apology from the
company and box full of T-shirts. ###