pencil sharpener - Everything2.com

In my experience there are three types of pencil sharpeners, excluding a sharp knife:

the razor blade attached at an angle from a hole little ones that you rotate yourself described by mollusk.
the standard wall or suction mount ones that have a crank that attaches (via gears) to a cylindrical screw type mechanism with sharpened screwishnesses that attack the to be sharpened pencil
the electric ones that eat up pencils like bugs bunny on a carrot binge.

I hope this list of pencil sharpeners will enlight and bemuse those new to the subject... Does anyone recall standing in line to use the sharpener in grade school?

pointy sticks	Why you should use pencils instead of pens	Mini-Max	Dutch oven
School Supplies	Thistle	mechanical pencil	Trust me
electric	pencil	Cheating on tests	George W. Bush's 2004 State of the Union Address
The Spring Pond Beavers	George Washington's 1792 State of the Union Address	the blue pig	Falling in love with an inanimate object
sharpener	March 21, 2001	Arlene Sardine	Cussing in German
HB	The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters	Laurentien	Turpentine