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I Believe You Have My Stapler

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chisel-point dept.

yack0 writes "After three years of demand and countless calls, emails and letters, you can finally buy a Red Swingline Stapler. Hooray! As noted in this wall street journal article and confirmed by this page at the Swingline Stapler web site you can now pick up a Red Swingline stapler for merely twice the price of a plain black stapler. However, a colleague of mine says that the online order form is reading around $16 for his right now. Now all the cubicle dwelling prairie dogs can get one step closer to burning down the building." The red stapler has become some sort of cult icon at this point.

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  1. I want a sledge hammer by Snowbeam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have a ton of machines to beat the living daylight out of. I also have my Office Space Soundtrack to play along to them. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta....

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  2. what I want to know is by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    How come /. still hasn't posted a single article about the passing of Gene Kan, but somehow a red stapler makes it to the front page???

    ????

    1. Re:what I want to know is by Tadghe · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      I submitted a story about this,but as usual...
      rejected in record time (2 minutes). Nice to know
      that staplers are more important than one of the
      best and brightest blowing his brains out at 25...
      but I digress......

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  3. Re:Ahhh Office Space by Hollinger · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    The sad part is I know what this means. HP printers do that if you picked the wrong size paper when you printed, e.g. A4 when all the printer has is 8.5x11.

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  4. Re:Cultural Icon by SN74S181 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mono-color means fewer varieties of items to stock. It means color coordination doesn't have to be a concern when outfitting a new cubicle. It saves money.

    Occam's Razor and all that.

  5. Mining the Moon for Helium-3 by Mulletproof · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    2002-07-11 05:31:21 Mining the Moon for Helium-3 (articles,news) (rejected)

    Assuming we could pull together a coherent space program of the Apollo magnitude once again, Helium-3, a cleaner, safer, more stable isotope could be mined from the moon in abundance as an alternate nuclear fuel, according to this story from the Sydney Morning Herald. Also discussed: Lunar Tourism.

    You know the shit's deep when a story about red staplers gets posted while one discussing how Helium 3 can be mined from the moon is rejected. I'd laugh if it weren't so damn tragic. Take the Karma. Might as well use it for something.

    Articles rejected to date: 10/10

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    1. Re:Mining the Moon for Helium-3 by CProgrammer98 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Yup I submitted about the Gnutella developer who shot himself - I felt sure that would make it - but no, red staplers are obviously far more important than a story about a young talanted open source developer killing himself...

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    2. Re:Mining the Moon for Helium-3 by sluggie · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      time to burn my karma too...

      Just count the seconds until the great bitchslappin' script kicks in and blackholes the whole thread...

      thank you /.