Sep 20 2007Free Ride Pen Gives No Complimentary Rides
Designer Jean Pierre Lepine (like pen!) has developed the Free Ride Pen. It is an expensive ass writing instrument that reminds me of the thing aliens ram in my exit hole whenever they pick me up for studies. It costs $175.
The Free Ride is designed to be different, ergonomic, and fun. This push top ballpoint features a soft rubber like material in the vital sections where finger meets pen. The arched hull is held in place by hand drilled screws. As Lepine puts it, “I create tomorrow’s writing instruments for today’s men and women”.
If this is tomorrow's writing instrument, I don't know how I feel about the future anymore. I thought it was supposed to be flying cars and robots, not $175 ass probes that double as pens. I don't remember seeing this thing in Back to the Future II. Screw it, I'm getting drunk and passing out somewhere.
UPDATE: One more picture after the click.
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Reader Comments
1. Ll - September 20, 2007 12:27 PM
STUPID PEN
2. TQ - September 20, 2007 1:13 PM
i feel dirty looking at it
3. Starbucks Whore - September 20, 2007 1:47 PM
Can't see paying that kind of money for a freakin' pen that looks like a weiner dog with something up its ass.
4. melissa - September 20, 2007 1:53 PM
what's the wheel for?
5. flutter - September 20, 2007 2:10 PM
i'd like one of these in my bedside arsenal.
6. JEff - September 20, 2007 2:51 PM
Why would a robot penis need a kick stand..... wait... nevermind
7. CAPITALLETTERS - September 20, 2007 2:53 PM
"Complementary".
8. read a book - September 20, 2007 3:16 PM
@ 7, go back to school
com·pli·men·ta·ry
2. given free as a gift or courtesy: a complimentary ticket.
com·ple·men·ta·ry
1. forming a complement; completing.
2. complementing each other.
9. pats - September 20, 2007 3:56 PM
"writing tool of the future" that very fact that its STILL A PEN is outdated.
hell, there's got to be a better way to inscribe things besides holding onto a device- like brain power or something telekinetic. same results, less work. lets make it happen!
10. Maddy - September 21, 2007 2:42 AM
i may have a dirty mind but i would use that pen to satisfy other needs than writing on paper. hey! not my fault, look at its ergonomic design. that`s plain kinky.
11. ash - September 21, 2007 10:38 AM
will it make me smarter?
12. jb - September 21, 2007 1:38 PM
for $175 that pen better have spellcehck...
13. CAPITALLETTERS - September 21, 2007 2:20 PM
"@ #" 8; don't trust everything you read. Online dictionaries also lists "miniscule" as an entry, instead of "minuscule", as an example.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that because something's published it's infallible.
14. sjnfndsjkf - September 24, 2007 3:35 AM
pen...or pen-is.