Lance Armstrong I waited a whole semester to tell this joke to a bunch of engineers. My girlfriend at the time was an engineer and we would end up in the lab with friends all the time. Every now and then when they had to do hand drawn plans the conversational topic came up about mechanical pencils and pens and what drew really well, etc etc. So literally in the middle of the conversation I decide to add my two cents. ""Hey guys, you know if you're going to spend a bunch of money on nice pens and pencils you might as well support a charity."" Everyone bought into supporting a charity so on I went. ""Lance Armstrong just bought a pen company, and now all purchases contribute a percentage to support cancer research and the LIVESTRONG foundation."" And then someone asked ""Which one?"" To which I replied ""Uniball"" Classic.