It's been said that "An actual size pencil is a commonplace of daily life which we look at without reaction, but a giant pencil makes us think of pencils in a new and original light" (American Stationer, 1922).  From St. Patrick's 1962 yearbook.

Small world!  "I am paid not to think."  From Photoplay, 1932.

Reblog if this could be you snagging toilet paper.  From Belmont Abbey's 1986 yearbook.

Before the laptop computer, there was the laptop typewriter.  From Emerson's 1977 yearbook.

From St. Procopius' 1965 yearbook.

West Chester's 1975 yearbook.   See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

"And there you are!"  From Life, 1923.

From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.

From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1958.

A caution to writers: a celestial globe is like spell-checking software, in that once you grow accustomed to having it, dependency grows.  A celestial globe is one of the many tools we use for writing our lesser-known works of esoterica. 

From Desoto's 1981 yearbook.

Feel better soon.

From Harper's (1902).

"The most doleful figure of them all."  From The Secret of the Marionettes by Ernest De Lancey, 1892.

"'Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.' —Lewis Mumford." 

From Colorado College's yearbook of 1986.

A strange trend in old yearbooks: men with unexpected lower halves.  Top photo: Maryland's 1989 yearbook.  Bottom photo: Virginia Commonwealth University's 1990 yearbook.

"Punchinello" by George Bellows, 1922.

At first glance, we thought his top hat was an hourglass.  From Shut, 1907.

Chocolate pie!  From The Nation's Health, 1921.

From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.

Looks like he has a black eye and scabs on his knuckles, but proper grooming apparently comes before bandages.  From an ad in Lustige Blätter, 1905.