What's with the pencils?

[RedBaron]

It's just a fun thing FW gave us to help keep track of our number of posts.

For each 50 to 100 posts, the pencil grows one hole. At 500 posts the pencil turns orange and stops growing. Moderators have green or black pencils. You may hear us joke about “pencil envy”. And Deb (breathfreshair) has a very special pencil with a sharpener