{"id":4369,"date":"2017-04-18T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:29:47","slug":"too-cool-to-do-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/too-cool-to-do-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Too Cool To Do Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/do-drugs-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/do-drugs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/do-drugs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a good idea when a youth welfare organisation in New York decided to hand out pencils printed with an anti-drugs slogan: TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS.<\/p>\n<p>But the organisers of the health education campaign had failed to think about the consequences of sharpening the pencil, which converted the slogan to COOL TO DO DRUGS.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you sharpened the pencil even more, the message became a short, sharp imperative: DO DRUGS!<\/p>\n<p>It was only when a 10-year-old pupil pointed out that pencils get shorter when sharpened that red-faced adults owned up to their mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The solution was simple: the slogan was printed in the opposite direction, so that it would say TOO COOL when it was sharpened\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026and talking about slogans on pencils, check out <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livinginlalaland.co.uk\/collections\/popcultpencils\" target=\"_blank\"><em>pop cult pencils<\/em><\/a><em> which are hand-stamped with funny slogans and quotes inspired by popular culture. Perhaps your friend would like a pencil inscribed \u201cMrs Louis Theroux\u201d or \u201cLiving for naps and Netflix\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like a good idea when a youth welfare organisation in New York decided to hand out pencils printed with an anti-drugs slogan: TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS. 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