Seems Pixel has found a random cow ...let's see what happens!
Pixel riffles through his pouch for something...
Pixel pops a bundle of hay from his pouch. The label on the bundle reads,
"Moo Magic (TM) Enchanted Hay CHOCOLATE Flavor Just Add Cow"
Pixel feeds the hay to the cow...
The cow contemplates the hints and notes of the enchanted hay...
The cow magically turns into a chocolate-milk cow...
Pixel begins to milk the chocolate-milk cow [seems Pixel popped a tuffet for himself---popples have no end of things hidden inside]
Pixel helps himself to some fresh (if not a bit warm) chocolate milk!
...Don't worry, the cow will revert before too long---the enchanted hay is only good for a few gallons (the farmer can sell chocolate milk for a premium). Additionally, be assured the raw milk is safe for Pixel to drink. :9
Pencils...
The featured specimens are ad pencils for Rainbow Milk Company and Lee Dairy Farms, respectively. The Rainbow Milk pencil has a model number printed on it: #8007, implying the pencil may either be a salesman sample or a prototype (for the buyer's approval). Either way, the manufacturer of these pencils is unknown to me.
The fun thing about these pencils are their milk-bottle toppers (one representing white milk, the other: chocolate). These toppers are not erasers, they're just plastic (and there doesn't seem to be anything under them).
As for their vintage...
It's difficult to date these pencils. My only real clues are the phone numbers. The Rainbow has a three-digit phone number (144); the Lee Dairy Farms has a four-digit phone number (4402).
Dating by phone numbers is tedious, for the history of phone numbers is very convoluted---there were factors, moreover, that would have been common knowledge way back when, that's mostly forgotten today (and may've varied by region).
For example, the phone number on the Rainbow pencil is written '144'. However, depending on when the pencil was made, it could be the actual number was '0144'. In fact, it's very likely a 0 would have gone before the 1-4-4 number, as the other pencil has a four-digit number (the pencils are contemporaries).
It's possible, too, that the 'true' number for Rainbow could have been even longer, something like either,
'S-0144' (7-0144) or RAI-0144 (724-0144). I dunno!
I'm too autistic for this, so I'll just quote my source (while I rock back and forth with my popple plush),
"Telephone numbers were introduced [to New York] in 1880; callers told the operator the number they wanted. The Spring exchange is thought to be the oldest named exchange to have survived into the 1960s, the era of all-digital dialing and the gradual elimination of exchange names. Phone exchange listings with phone numbers first appeared in New York Times advertisements in 1882; an example was Spring 255, for a funeral parlor. The older numbers had two or three digits. Later, four digits were used. In December 1920, as the phone company prepared for direct local dialing, all numbers became four digits. The older two- and three-digit numbers acquired four digits by adding one or two zeroes: Spring 255, say, would have become Spring 0255. Four-digit exchange numbers remained standard until Dec. 31, 1930, when a fifth digit was added, as in PEnnsylvania 6-5000, the famous Hotel Pennsylvania number, which still exists in its numeric form, 736-5000. But in the 1920s, subscribers with dial telephones were using the first three letters of the exchange name, dialing the numbers that corresponded to the letters (SPR for Spring would have been 777.) So for the oldest numbers still in use, you might look for 777-0XXX or 777-00XX, whose two- or three-digit ancestors may have been in use a century ago under the Spring exchange"
"Lee Dairy Farms in Madisonville, TN received a Paycheck Protection Loan of $69,357 through Peoples Bank of East Tennessee, which was approved in April, 2020"
This brings me back memories of seeing something involving white, pink, and brown cows providing the regular, strawberry, and chocolate milks. At least Pixel didn't decide to tip over the cow a few times to try and get a chocolate milkshake.
Don't tip cows ladies and gentlemen. It's not only utterly ridiculous, but there are better ways of getting them to moove. :3
This brings me back memories of seeing something involving white, pink, and brown cows providing the
