I'm a bit curious about the felt tip pens I use on the white board when I'm teaching...
One of the great tickling scenes of mainstream movies involves a pencil. Cary Grant plays a husband divorcing his wife, Irene Dunne, and he has second thoughts when she starts dating. He is hiding in a closet in a room where Irene is being read a terrible poem her boyfriend has written her, and Cary reaches out with a pencil (the eraser end) and tickles her ribs to make her laugh during the poetry reading.
A pencil, properly used, can do the job nicely!
Certainly acknowleged a great moment in the history of cinema for a tickling amateur, but I suspect Irene of faking her laugh. Otherwise said, Carry Grant didn't succeed in producing great tickling with his pencil.
So I would tend to fear feathers or brushes more than pencils or any of these ludicrous tools. Only heretics of ticking use pencils !
And only heretics of tickling spell it "ticking".
One of the great tickling scenes of mainstream movies involves a pencil. Cary Grant plays a husband divorcing his wife, Irene Dunne, and he has second thoughts when she starts dating. He is hiding in a closet in a room where Irene is being read a terrible poem her boyfriend has written her, and Cary reaches out with a pencil (the eraser end) and tickles her ribs to make her laugh during the poetry reading.
A pencil, properly used, can do the job nicely!
Oh sorry ! I've been ticking boxes all day long so it may have influenced my spelling.
I remember that scene, it is very cute. But the key phrase in your description is "the eraser end". The point would be too sharp and hurt rather than tickle.
A few mates laid me face down on a bed, sat down on my ankles and tried this tool on my soles, once :
http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?p=2098928#post2098928
It didn't hurt much... but truly drove me nuts. Very, very, very efficient and torturous, believe me.