what strange device could have caused this?

[rone]

I showered after a soccer game and noticed a peculiar mark on my torso.  It had a familiar shape, almost like...

The grey mark on the right is a piece of pencil lead i jabbed into myself in 3rd grade; for some damn fool reason, i went out to recess clutching a freshly sharpened pencil, and tripped.

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[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I could leave that mark with my fingernails, but you'd certainly remember getting it.

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

That mark is the mark of a truly geodesic man.

The grey mark on the right

[ewx.livejournal.com]

...is obviously an alien implant. Don't try to fool us.

[skapusniak.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think I need to clarify the terms of this question.

I'm guessing I'm not supposed to reply '...almost like the stitching on a soccer ball' here, am I?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Zounds! You might be right!

Dude...

[(Anonymous)]

...put some clothes on!

Thib ;-)

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

i went out to recess clutching a freshly sharpened pencil, and tripped.

I did exactly the same thing in 3rd grade, but I stabbed myself in the side of my head. Mark's still there.

Our Native American names are Fools Who Run With Sharpened Pencils.

Have you been playing with

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

the Combat Rod of Rheton again? Who did you crush this time?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to talk about what i've been doing with my Combat Rod, OK PAL???

Awwww!

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Are we experiencing a little shrinkage? Poor Spot!

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

I think the Blair Witch has been drawing stickmen on your belly.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Mysterious hobo marking symbols taunt us both.

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

Yes, but what are the hobos marking with those symbols? "Good eats"? "Dry Sleeping Place"? "Puts Out"?

[jwgh]

If you get one of these, let us know.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm... that looks familiar.

Did to me too until

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

I realized I was thinking of Naked Fingularity. I should stop doing that.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

No one told me this was a sex blog.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Dude, i am TEH SEX.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I would like to subscribe to your 'zine.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

I have a similar, smaller, gray mark on my left bicep, near the shoulder.

In high school, my best friend and I both took architecture classes. We had drafting pencils, and these pointing devices that you used to make a fine point on them. Basically conical sanding surfaces and a rotating top - you stuck the pencil in a hole and moved it around and it sanded the tip to a nice point for fine work. This would leave a lot of carbon powder on the pencil though.

Well, my friend's locker was near mine, and apparently he'd just pointed a pencil and had it in his hand. He forgot it was there, and he walked up to me and gave me a playful punch on the shoulder.

Spearing me with the pencil, right through my shirt.

The shirt took most of the 'soot', but I got enough in the wound to make a faint little tattoo.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Chicken wire? Feynmann diagram? It's hard to tell how big it is without something of known size in the picture.

That would make a neat scar.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, a Feynman diagram tattoo. I could totally go for that.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Feynnmann. Feynnmannn. etc.

Diagrams of various benzenes would work too.

[eb-oesch.livejournal.com]

It's just the aftereffects of dry skin. The skin contracts more or less uniformly as it loses moisture, leaving a hexagonal pattern of cracks. Apparently enough time has passed since this occurred that the fissures have sealed over with new red skin. If you were scientifically minded, you could figure these things out for yourself.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You're right, of course. I shall run my experiments... ON YOU! Igor, fetch the hair dryer!

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

It looks like 2Wanda drew a little stick figure on you when you
were sleeping. You woke up before she finished the...er...um...
The stick figure's head got kicked off?

IT LOOKS LIKE A TINY LITTLE STICK FIGURE OKAY?