A teacher in my school would keep empty or "dead" pens in a box and would sometimes pick one up and use it to see if it had possibly started working again or "come back to life."
@Wesleyintheory
13 жыл бұрын
I admit I am a pen person, so I can relate to the girl in the poem. Love your work. Hope to see some new works up sometime
@tinkerbellchime
14 жыл бұрын
Great for Back to School lessons and lectures about bringing school supplies to school. Might show it the first week of school. Thanks for all your hard work, Taylor. You make teachers seem cool.
@raphaellaw766
10 жыл бұрын
i do actually rate pens like this, analyzing which are the best brand to use.... but this is quite the extreme. :P quite nice.
@teaartist6455
5 жыл бұрын
What have been your results so far?
@zkylar
16 жыл бұрын
That was great and made me laugh for the first time all day. So thank you. I am also glad to see a new video.
@dherrer1
16 жыл бұрын
i love your work taylor. i also saw ur video on what teachers make and it is absolutely awesome. thank u for sharing your work with us!
@Medquill
11 жыл бұрын
This piece has the flavor of Shel Sylverstein :D
@Genshi
14 жыл бұрын
Very Seussean in the best possible way. I've been watching all of Mr. Mali's videos (whom I have recently discovered for myself) and I do believe he is Brilliant! (yes, with a capital B.)
@pennydime9924
5 жыл бұрын
Dang!!! I’m the girl with the pens. I have a big pen addiction and analyze all my pens like this... oopps!!
@MikeR8898
9 жыл бұрын
G2 Pilot 1.0 for the win :D
@bottmint
14 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, wonderful work. I love your poetry. I had the pleasure of seeing you in person at East central University in Oklahoma. I enjoyed every moment of it. I've read the book I got at that show many, many times, and as soon as I get the funds, I plan on buying a few more!
@SirLirin2
13 жыл бұрын
I have SO been that girl during classes. I have multiple pens--the way I sort my notes is different pages have different inks, each ink signals a different class.
@wodahsking
14 жыл бұрын
the last stanza was AWESOME!
@PurpleLightsaberAlex
11 жыл бұрын
Once a classmate asked me for a pen, she picked one up from my desk before I could get the chance to respond with "Sure".
@sunago
11 жыл бұрын
I actually seemed to be one of the few students in my class that brought their own pens and pencils to school. I became so used to having to lend them out I just bought a lot of coloured ones "this one's for Bob, this one's for Melissa, this one's for jacob...etc etc." Became a running gag in my class too...apparently I was a blue and black girl which cracked them up.
@toggerrie
15 жыл бұрын
i love this!
@fantadoodles
14 жыл бұрын
Hillarious!! I can so relate to this!!
@Pakkens_Backyard
10 жыл бұрын
I hate borrowing pens, cause no one ever uses needle point gel ink :/
@videojunkiegirl
14 жыл бұрын
i love itt!
@sinditpower
13 жыл бұрын
THIS GUY IS AWESOME HE CAME TO MY SCHOOL TODAY
@AnAwsomeGuy1
12 жыл бұрын
i can so relate to this
@reinux
3 жыл бұрын
Why is this so accurate
@bummercucumber
15 жыл бұрын
He's great.
@moodysavage
14 жыл бұрын
this is soooo true... I know of one girl who tries to borrow a pencil everyday and her purse has about 20 too!
@iceprincess1257
14 жыл бұрын
love it!
@UnionKid15
15 жыл бұрын
I love this, simply hilarious.
@CrownMooseCostumes
11 жыл бұрын
I've been through this before. One of my old friends lectured me on how many pens she kept in her purse and it still drives me crazy.
@franzlisztish
11 жыл бұрын
LOVE IT!
@oliviahuebner4270
10 жыл бұрын
!
@RokkTheDragon
12 жыл бұрын
Likewise... At any rate, I think there is a great metaphor in this poem that maybe people aren't seeing.
@EzequiasFarias
11 жыл бұрын
AWESOME!!!!!
@Kseniya_Marina
13 жыл бұрын
THIS IS SO HILARIOUSLY TRUE.
@karebear5891
12 жыл бұрын
I have like 20 pens on me at all times, I admit it! But they are all usable and they all work and I give them out like candy, never expecting them back.
@WilkineBrutus
15 жыл бұрын
wow...great one!!!
@Chicochef
13 жыл бұрын
...I really enjoyed the ending of this poem
@GirlGamer2374
12 жыл бұрын
awesome poem. i love this one!
@figly365
16 жыл бұрын
oh this was great! i wish i could write like that.
@tayloreh
15 жыл бұрын
I got a signed copy of his poetry book 'What Learning Leaves' because I won an online photo caption contest somehow. But I'm not here to gloat; just to say if you see that book, its worth getting!
@KwartzKitten
14 жыл бұрын
That 20 pens thing is something I totally relate with. (except all of mine work, but whatever, this is great!)
@creolesocagirl
13 жыл бұрын
I like the poem. It has a Dr. Seuss felling to it....does anyone else think so?
@thomazmenezes5894
10 жыл бұрын
hes in my school!
@teaartist6455
5 жыл бұрын
Reminds me I only have one ballpoint left for lending and that ones from France so I don't want to lend it for long and risk loosing it...I need more pens.
@mygeesearebumpin
13 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter if there were only 18 pens listed or whatever, because at the end he says, "I think she went on but I couldn't have cared. I decided it was better to go unprepared." So she likely kept talking about more pens but he wasn't listening.
@Mystrohan
15 жыл бұрын
He looks better without the ponytail. His poetry, however, is just as fantastic with or without it.
@livetoserve966
11 жыл бұрын
i looked to my left, at my pen holder with like 11 pens and thought "which one was the good one again?" then i remembered their all unused.
@bexter28
15 жыл бұрын
hell yes. i love dr seuss!
@CaseyWilkesmusic
15 жыл бұрын
that was great, i like the little skips in rhythm, keeps it interesting.
@reginaldfairfield
14 жыл бұрын
I do love me some Taylor Mali. I just like watching his mouth move.
@insanelittlesilk
11 жыл бұрын
Lol. I was that girl who took out all the colored pens and arranged them neatly on my desk... no, wait, I still do that.
@brandonmetal1
13 жыл бұрын
I think this one is more Shel Silverstien-esque, but I have heard poems of his that are very much like Dr. Seuss as well.
@rasputinsghost
16 жыл бұрын
I love BPC.
@tifanicampbell7136
11 жыл бұрын
I actually used to lend out pens and pencils all the time because I kept all kinds of them in my purse. Then I started not getting them back, which really ticked me off, because I actually used some of them a lot. So I just ended up saying "sorry dude I don't have a pen/pencil, this is my only one." Because if you're not going to give it back, I'm not going to give it to you.
@JCMELKOR
10 жыл бұрын
bic ballpoints it's where it's at
@blueeyedbaby210
11 жыл бұрын
@TheDakotaDawn no I work in aproducedepartment.. Thebox cutteer is constantly used. The sharppie is forr inventory labels and thhe pen iss for listing what needs filled when making carts to run and also writing down the product that we throw away for record keeping purposes
@passionista411
15 жыл бұрын
i think you should know, mr. mali, that after watching this video, i said "Genius!" Unprepared would definitely be the way to go if you have all that trouble!
@TheButtable
13 жыл бұрын
Epic.
@Missybc96
13 жыл бұрын
and dat is why ladies and gentlemen you drop two pens in your bag at the beginning of every week. One 4 writing & one 4 just in case (don't lend it)
@Cristinact
13 жыл бұрын
34 people who have watched this have never had their pens back...
@ItalianChick93
12 жыл бұрын
@piewackett1 I'm not sure if you're joking or not. First off it's 'dude,' not 'dood' (I should cite Mali's proofreading poem). All he was doing was making a point about how girls do tend to do say 'I have millions of pens but the one you want is the one I'm going to use and all the rest are crap' (I've observed my own classmates doing this) and turning it into humor. It's not about despising women. It's just poking a little fun at the silly things girls do.
@benedictifye
13 жыл бұрын
Worthy of Shel Silverstein! Fabbolous!
@kayla017777777
14 жыл бұрын
@scotty7does7know he actually doesn't mention 20, he only mentions 18 different pens.
@rtuiy9898
12 жыл бұрын
@piewackett1 offended by this rant, after watching it 2 times again, I see what you mean by him being sexist towards girls. But you have to admit, this guy is a freaking genius.
@Free411
14 жыл бұрын
dude thts a great poem dat lady bette recognizeee
@ScrewBinLaden
12 жыл бұрын
There is a third kind. The people who have a pen everyday, but never for more than one day. I swear I have 50 pens, just 1 day at a time.
@Hunnymuffin321
14 жыл бұрын
haha, one thinks of poetry as too deep and hard to understand sometimes...but this is something u can compare too...and its deep in a sense but easy to understand
@16Vevi
11 жыл бұрын
that is me, i have about 15 pens in my backpack right now
@JohnRunyon
13 жыл бұрын
@Dagunslinger9 no, i know, i didnt capitalize 'cause i never do :P but yeah i was saying "the the" instead of how you said "the"
@AZproducton
12 жыл бұрын
my mom just walked in and asked me for a pen
@csmith3699
12 жыл бұрын
Yes, this feels a lot like Dr. Seuss....
@Zeratul723
13 жыл бұрын
Damn girls....!
@mathut3782
11 жыл бұрын
Same here, but then when I don't need it I find it right there in my pocket.
@imstillheather
15 жыл бұрын
"Girls lending what?" *pause* "Pens."
@JustAPrayer
12 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. So true, although in my experience this has mostly happened with boys actually. :D
@coughingcalf
16 жыл бұрын
lol this is awesome. so typical of girls in any class. ...i should know. i am one! used to carry a bag full of pens and pencils in school. lol
@IZANOXYMORON
13 жыл бұрын
He actually says 20 different pens. I counted.
@MMagentaHH
13 жыл бұрын
@Dee3BoobTube in 50 cents song 21 Questions, he asked 22 questions
@angeltru95
11 жыл бұрын
My case is packed with pens except they're all done and I carry them cause well I don't know its just hard to get rid of something your always used to seeing, yes I get easily attached to obects
@emmaanderson8083
6 жыл бұрын
How did my English teacher find this! It’s very wired that she did this for classes.
@formidablefoe5339
8 жыл бұрын
I loaned someone a pen just to get it back with the end all chewed up from them biting on it. Gross.
@walkingthevalley
14 жыл бұрын
I will loan my students a pen, but they have to call me "sir" while asking for one.
@squeekytoy123
15 жыл бұрын
this reminds me of doctor seuss!!
@shawtygotteeth
15 жыл бұрын
i saw him on def poetry and now hes got short hair and hes a teacher
@rtuiy9898
12 жыл бұрын
@piewackett1 Well, if you're a girl and you're offended by this video, I can probably understand where you're coming from. But you shouldn't take this video so seriously, what he said in this video doesn't apply to everyone. But it's true! There's always the one girl who has sixteen sacks full of pens while everyone else has none :P But, all aside, I found his speaking style funny. Not because it was supposedly sexist, but because it was legitimately funny. But I get what you mean when you feel
@RayMysteryo
14 жыл бұрын
@SmashLordSpoon calm down there stallion. we dont have to think too hard
@viih6949
12 жыл бұрын
genius.
@Rigicai05
12 жыл бұрын
@voirinkeli PENS!!! IT'S LENDING PENS!!!
@prbyv
15 жыл бұрын
I totally do this! lmao!!
@ian800
14 жыл бұрын
Oh my! Take a look at the lady's face right at the end of the video, before it fades to black. Those raised eyebrows say "not impressed".
@ObjectsInMotion
11 жыл бұрын
Why have so many pens that dont work in the first place?
@alexandrakulik9827
11 жыл бұрын
Just what I was thinking.
@creolesocagirl
13 жыл бұрын
@Albido100 Very much so!
@hindsight8522
10 жыл бұрын
The old lady in the beginning had a SEXY voice
@Giles2144
12 жыл бұрын
im the first...im lost when i forget them at home :(
@Brooque613
15 жыл бұрын
Nice! I never actually did that, but I know people who did... :o)
@flyinghotwing
15 жыл бұрын
whats up with the old witch distraction?
@Jeff26
15 жыл бұрын
In the background it sounds like someone is running on a treadmill.
@Theepicpurpleninja
12 жыл бұрын
The question is; If so many of her pens don't work, why does she bring them to class?
@CuppaBro1
12 жыл бұрын
I swear, if all of her pens were malfunctioning in some way, why did she offer them all?
@nathanthesnare
14 жыл бұрын
@whenindoubt20 Oh really? He changed your perspective on pens?
@blueeyedbaby210
11 жыл бұрын
My job requiresi have a shapie pen and boxccutter at all times. Usually I have two sharpies and three pens just incase lol
@letsallsmileatthis
13 жыл бұрын
I've got plenty-turned around with a handful of twenty
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