FUTURE FOSSILS - TAKING THE BULL BY THE CLIPS
(BEST VIEWED LARGE)
Excavated from a strata composed entirely of compressed 19th/20th Century public service stationery request forms this exceptional multi-species fossil has proved an epiphany for Bureaucratoligists.
Dr. John Vaaler, interviewed in his Oslo office, commented: "This changes all our views concerning the life cycle of the binder clip. It had hitherto been assumed that the smaller paper clip was the youthful form of the mature binder clip. In fact, the savage scenario played out in this unique fossil reveals that the paper clip is an entirely seperate species that actually preys upon the binder.
It is apparent that the mature 'bulldog' binder clip was being attacked by a pack of hunting paperclips. In a similar fashion to the now famous Pom-PayDay site, where an entire civilization was buried by an eruption of payslips and timecards, it appears that a cataclysmic explosion of an overloaded photocopy tray overwhelmed the struggling combatants in an instantly lethal but ultimately preservative paperclastic flow.
Furthermore, the fossil demonstrates that the gallant Bulldog clip's last battle was not one-sided. To the right of the main conflict grouping can be seen the remains of one imprudent paper clip (designated "Clippy") that fell victim to the Bulldog's cornered wrath. Straightened in death its untwisted body bears witness to the immense power of the Bulldog's formidable jaws. One less Windows Office Assistant to plague the world!
Good Science will always bow to new facts, and we are more than happy to have our wings clipped in such a revelatory manner."
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Um. This all seemed like a sane idea at the time.....think I'll file it with the rest of the truly bewildering ones. Now, where did I put that paperclip...?
Fun Facts With Paperclips! For the unenlightened, John Vaaler, a Norwegian, was one of many people variously credited with inventing the paperclip, in his case in the 1890s. Because the paperclip was (wrongly or rightly) attributed to his country it became a semi-covert symbol of national resistance against the Nazi occupation in World War II, when the little gizmo would be clipped to shirt collars and lapels as a show of solidarity. Who knew?
No wonder that MacGyver would later proudly use it to continue the fight against the forces of naughtiness!
FUTURE FOSSILS - TAKING THE BULL BY THE CLIPS
(BEST VIEWED LARGE)
Excavated from a strata composed entirely of compressed 19th/20th Century public service stationery request forms this exceptional multi-species fossil has proved an epiphany for Bureaucratoligists.
Dr. John Vaaler, interviewed in his Oslo office, commented: "This changes all our views concerning the life cycle of the binder clip. It had hitherto been assumed that the smaller paper clip was the youthful form of the mature binder clip. In fact, the savage scenario played out in this unique fossil reveals that the paper clip is an entirely seperate species that actually preys upon the binder.
It is apparent that the mature 'bulldog' binder clip was being attacked by a pack of hunting paperclips. In a similar fashion to the now famous Pom-PayDay site, where an entire civilization was buried by an eruption of payslips and timecards, it appears that a cataclysmic explosion of an overloaded photocopy tray overwhelmed the struggling combatants in an instantly lethal but ultimately preservative paperclastic flow.
Furthermore, the fossil demonstrates that the gallant Bulldog clip's last battle was not one-sided. To the right of the main conflict grouping can be seen the remains of one imprudent paper clip (designated "Clippy") that fell victim to the Bulldog's cornered wrath. Straightened in death its untwisted body bears witness to the immense power of the Bulldog's formidable jaws. One less Windows Office Assistant to plague the world!
Good Science will always bow to new facts, and we are more than happy to have our wings clipped in such a revelatory manner."
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Um. This all seemed like a sane idea at the time.....think I'll file it with the rest of the truly bewildering ones. Now, where did I put that paperclip...?
Fun Facts With Paperclips! For the unenlightened, John Vaaler, a Norwegian, was one of many people variously credited with inventing the paperclip, in his case in the 1890s. Because the paperclip was (wrongly or rightly) attributed to his country it became a semi-covert symbol of national resistance against the Nazi occupation in World War II, when the little gizmo would be clipped to shirt collars and lapels as a show of solidarity. Who knew?
No wonder that MacGyver would later proudly use it to continue the fight against the forces of naughtiness!