[mandown]

I take them off of stuff all the time, but never attach them to anything. Now I have a pile of them on my desk, and it gets bigger daily. I don't know where they come from, and it seems wasteful to throw them away.

#cubiclepeopleproblems

 

[IH8Rice]

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

I use them. Often. I have OCD. If I have a boatload of drawings/bill of materials clipped together, have them signed off and get them back as a big jumbled, unclipped mess, I get irritated.

People here often give me light-hearted **** about it, but guess who's generally the only one who knows where the hell everything is all the time, as to not have to re-do/re-print work and waste time?

 

[eaterofdog]

I make paperclip grasshoppers and lean them against stuff on peoples desk. Bonus points if it hits them in the face.

 

[skibunny24]

I am the source of where they come from. Practically every piece of paper that comes to my desk has to be scanned, so I never use the stapler, and if paper comes stapled, it ends up paper clipped. I'd happily take back all of those now, I am running out.

 

[HAB]

I am the source of where they come from.

Is this your clock?

 

[Westy]

straighten/bend/weld them into tiny trusses. Build bicycle from trusses.

 

[mandown]

I am the source of where they come from. Practically every piece of paper that comes to my desk has to be scanned, so I never use the stapler, and if paper comes stapled, it ends up paper clipped. I'd happily take back all of those now, I am running out.

give me an address to send them to.

 

[skibunny24]

Is this your clock?

View attachment 109148

How'd you know?

 

[I Are Baboon]

Don't you have holes all over your body that you can hang them from?

 

[eaterofdog]

straighten/bend/weld them into tiny trusses. Build bicycle from trusses.

4 Profit!

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Looks like something Golgi would order.

 

[jimmydean]

Start putting them on stuff you send out, 2 or more at a time. before you know it, you will be all out. Pay it forward.

 

[kidwithbike]

After I broke my wrist I was punished by compiling all the hardcopies of inspection reports for the entire World Trade Center site. I went through 1200 papers clips in 2 days pretty much one handed. It was beyond awful.

 

[kazlx]

I prefer binder clips.

 

[jdcamb]

Use them for illustrating a catenary curve, which is the cosine hyperbolicus function (cosh), that can also be expressed as a sum of two exponential functions. Paper clips are very effective at illustrating the difference between a catenary curve and a parabola. I would have never passed physics if it hadn't been for my Tutors paper clip illustrations.

 

[Quo Fan]

I have a stapler on my desk, but we use paper clips for everything at work.

 

[jdcamb]

Ed McNally hated staplers. He lost his job at EF Hutton because of Staplers. He threw it through his office door window, glass went everywhere. Ironically he was an early investor in Staples.

 

[gonefirefightin]

make a chain out of them and put it across the opening of your cubicle, then hire a bouncer to let you in and out

 

[worship_mud]

make a chain out of them and put it across the opening of your cubicle, then hire a bouncer to let you in and out

/thread

 

[Westy]

Use them for illustrating a catenary curve, which is the cosine hyperbolicus function (cosh), that can also be expressed as a sum of two exponential functions. Paper clips are very effective at illustrating the difference between a catenary curve and a parabola. I would have never passed physics if it hadn't been for my Tutors paper clip illustrations.

I found this hilarious, I need to get a life.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Looks like something Golgi would order.

And wait for. And bitch about continuously.

 

[in the trees]

Funny that this thread's title has a paperclip icon (attachment) associated with it.

 

[mandown]

Funny that this thread's title has a paperclip icon (attachment) associated with it.

 

[jdcamb]

Funny that this thread's title has a paperclip icon (attachment) associated with it.

Someday you will be in the awkward position of facing impending incarceration and wish you hadn't mocked the humble paper clip. Ever wonder why Levis have the little sub pocket on the right side? Its the paper clip pocket and cops never look in there....

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Someday you will be in the awkward position of facing impending incarceration and wish you hadn't mocked the humble paper clip. Ever wonder why Levis have the little sub pocket on the right side? Its the paper clip pocket and cops never look in there....

Wow.5

 

[jdcamb]

Wow.5

Like you have never woke up in the Chelsea Hotel handcuffed to the bed. Just so you know if you cant get out of the handcuffs by checkout time the maids will call the Police.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Like you have never woke up in the Chelsea Hotel handcuffed to the bed. Just so you know if you cant get out of the handcuffs by checkout time the maids will call the Police.

It was the radiator. And she was the one who handcuffed me to it. And it wasn't the police, it was the FBI.

 

[BikeMike]

Send your surplus paper clips to Lee Bergeron so he has something to give his children for Christmas.

(And save a few to unbend, make strained triangles, and bounce off a desk.)