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I don’t know about you but I always feel a bit foolish when I square up all my papers, line up my stapler and then nothing …
Colo(u)red staples
https://www.google....a2&biw=1780&bih=913
[UnaBubba, May 29 2012]
springwatch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qgm3
apols if its unavailable to the colonies... [po, May 30 2012]
[link]
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This stapler of yours, po. Is it steam powered by any chance? |
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The true stapler ninja knows how many staples are left by feeling the weight of the stapler when they pick it up. |
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no, [DrBob] its powered by mice. |
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only kidding - that wouldn't be good on so many levels. |
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You could always try a hamster. |
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How about strips of staples made with three fluorescent orange staples at the end? |
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how would that help? Oh, you mean I could be forewarned. No, I don't want coloured staples - that would spoil the look of my documents. |
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Actually beautiful colored staples would be rather
cool. However that wouldn't solve your issues. I think
squealing is much better, and fun. + |
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//The true stapler ninja knows how many staples are left by feeling the weight of the stapler when they pick it up.// |
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I smell a Saturday Night Live bit. "Sahito Jones, Office Ninja" |
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Central casting office worker type: "Hey Sahito, just making some copies here." |
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(haunting bamboo flute plays in the background as shot cuts to Sahito stutinizing the copier, as if seeing that which others cannot see." |
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Sahito Jones: "Do not bother. Toner is low." |
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//a stapler that squeals when you pick it up and its empty// |
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It should wait for you to staple it while empty, and then sound loud alarm sirens and flash projections up onto the ceiling saying "Foolish Person Below". Why waste the feeling? |
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Actually, shouldn't it squeal when the last staple is used forcing the person to refill it, or in my case, throw it out the window? |
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//The true stapler ninja knows how many staples are
left by feeling the weight of the stapler when they pick it
up.// |
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Whereas the Western equivalent, the staplerslinger, is
perfectly adept at counting expended staples, even in the
heat of combat. |
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//wait for you to staple it while empty // exactly what I'm striving to avoid. |
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I have an electric stapler that has a light that comes
on when the stapler is empty. |
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The Stapler Juggler never runs out of staples |
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What about one that sniffles when half-empty, sobs
when 3/4 empty and wails loudly thereafter? |
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A flexible belt loading a continuous stream of staples from a huge hopper in the basement of your office building? |
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How about a see-through stapler? |
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I like the rainbow hue staple pack idea. When they start to red-shift, you know you're stapling too fast. |
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How bout one of those staplers like in the high-end photocopy machines in which you don't load staples, but a spool of wire and the staples are made inside? To avoid running out of wire, have a built-in wire extruder connected to a large vat of molten staple metal, and... oh never mind. |
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// How about a see-through stapler? // |
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Swingline makes (or made) a model with transparent
plastic tops that came in various colors. |
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How about a stapler that opens when the pusher reaches the empty position and won't latch until a new rail of staples is added? |
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gawd that's so sexy [WcW] - you've been watching Springwatch, obviously. |
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re: I'm going to now, looks interesting. |
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A solid U-shaped piece of metal stock, which the stapler cuts a slice out of and then staples with. As you approach the end of the bar, the slices get progressively thinner, to the extent that you never ever run out of metal to make staples from. |
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... a stapler that self-destructs if you let it run out of staples, then taking half an hour to reassemble. |
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A stapler with an autonomous robot assistant that scavenges your office for staples to extract from old reports, straighten and reuse. |
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[one vertical staple and one horizontal staple] |
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<crosses my elf><my elf is a catholic!> |
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Transparent bodied stapler?
Or a microswitch which sounds a buzzer when the last staple's been struck.
I liked [UnaBubba]'s link, but simply colouring the last few staples of a block of staples (so you can see when you're coming to the end) would be much easier/cheaper |
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Welcome to the party, [Dub]. Don't feel too bad about
being
late, it's not your fault you missed the parts where other
people proposed all of those ideas. |
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apparently, [Dub] was at the other party where they're actually putting ideas into practice! |
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Aaaarrh! Reality is overrated! |
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