Just upping my post count.

Moooove
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Outa my way...one more post and this thread will self destruct!

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AH HAAAAAA the 100th post for me on the TKC!!!! beat that Stoon!!!!!

Oop.

Not hard. Spent all last evening trying to think up something pity to post, but coming up with nothing. Decided to see long before someone would post since my 3pm post, seeing if I had killed the thread with my nothing post.

I say content also has to count so any post made for the simple concept of upping one's post count, not only doesn't count but deducts 5 posts from your count.

'sides, I thought "winning" was whoever got the thread to quit growing, not whoever has the most wins.

Trying to get no one else to post after you because they are so grossed out seems to be the plan now.

I grew up with 4 brothers, it takes a lot to gross me out. In fact, I can gross out my brothers easier than they can gross me out.

The problem with the gross out pictures is people don't have to look.

Its like a traffic accident, you don't want to look but somehow your neck keeps turning your head in that direction.

I guess I was six. Our class was doing the field trip to a farm thing, and we passed by an accident. I can still see the bodies in my mind.

It is a good day when you are looking at the accident, try being in it, been there, done that, not much fun.

One morning about 15 years ago I was driving to work and one of my speaker wires came loose. When I stopped to fix it there was this old ladys dog that ran up to greet me. I fixed the wire and jumped back in my truck, I didn't notice the dog til I ran over it. I hit it with the front and rear tires. I stopped again to see what I hit and I see this Benji looking dog dying in the street and this little old lady standing on the sidewalk crying uncontrollably. I stayed with her til Benji died then I picked him up and handed him to her told her I was sorry and went to work.

I still bum out when I think about that.

Fast cash at 700% You just have to love deregulation

Can Randi start a fund where we can all pitch in a buck or two. I want to buy a lobbiest!

I hate hearing about dead doggies, got one waiting for me on the otherside.

Man, that must have been hard on both you and the lady. It was an accident though, really I wouldn't have thought to look for the dog either.

When I was a stupid 18 year old I let some friends talk me into checking out an accident. I never got up to the actual scene, just what I heard was up there was enough to make me turn around and go back to the car. Since then I really resist that urge to look.

I will confess to watching the cops search people's cars and truck from my living room window/door though. They got one the other night they hand cuffed and sent away in one of the 5 squad cars and had the truck hauled off by a local wrecker after they searched it. Have no idea what was going on, I feel nosy enough just watching from the window. I tend to try to stay out of the way of the cops when they are working.

Well, I don't know about you guys, but it's time to ride the harley and have a beer with friends. RC helicopter time.... ayea......... I hope you all have a good weekend!

Damnit. I can't find my disc 4 of World of Warcraft.

Because the world is round it turns me on

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It's a good thing I'm not going to share those pictures of Dick Cheney being tied up and spanked by hookers!

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I wish the head would separate and fly away!

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The father of one of my son's friends went completely crack-crazy with Halo, right through the point of playing 24 hours straight and calling in sick to work so he could keep playing. So, the wife took the disk and smashed it. he bought a replacement and she smashed that one, too.

Lately when kids go over to visit this guy's son, Dad meets them at the door to ask if he can borrow their Halo for just a day or two. My son said the dad actually had tears in his eyes pleading with one kid. It's apprently very much like a heroin addict pleading for just one quick fix.

'Course, nobody is going over to THAT kid's house anymore.

What I meant to say was, are you married? Ask your wife if SHE knows where the disk is?

Nope. I'm single. I'm destined to die sad an lonely.

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I can be sad, I have to many toys

Alternate deaths include keeling over dead from a heart attack or dying with everyone else when the world ends in 2012.

Mark Green may be able to delete the posts on the old board (still wondering about that..) but he cannot delete what we remember. I believe I brought up the "stapler" question when I posted this in an attempt to assist late nighters needing to get some sleep. Good night



The History of the Stapler


If we define the stapler as a machine for fastening papers together, then the earliest recorded account of a stapler comes from 18th century France.

Legend has it that a stapler was developed during the 1700's for the exclusive use of King Louis XV of France. The ornate handmade staples for this device (some accounts claim that the staples were made of gold, and encrusted with precious stones) were imprinted with the royal court's insignia.
Evidently, the effeminate monarch didn't recognize a marketing opportunity when he saw it, choosing to keep this invention to himself rather than selling it to the masses. What do you expect? I mean, look at the guy.


King Louis XV of France
Winner of the first Kathy Bates look-alike contest

The First American Stapler... Not

Many sources credit Samuel Slocum of Poughkeepsie, NY with inventing the first stapler in 1841 for his patent titled Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper, (US Patent 2275). This is not accurate! Slocum's machine is not a stapler or paper fastener; its function is as a packaging machine for sewing pins.

It's easy to understand how someone could mistake this machine for a paper fastener. The title of the invention - Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper- could easily lead one to assume that the pins are inserted to fasten papers together. There's nothing in the patent's description to contradict this assumption.

However, while the machine does stick pins into paper, it is the pins that are the final product - the paper is simply a convenient holder for the pins. Slocum's machine enabled Great-Aunt Clara to buy her sewing pins packaged sixteen-to-a-card rather than loose.


Slocum's Machine - 1841. Not a stapler.

Later patents for machines of this type (including Howe's patent of 1843 which references Slocum) make it clear that the intent is not to pin paper together but rather to put the pins into paper for packaging. Common sense backs this up - a machine that simultaneously sticks 16 pins into a crimped single sheet of paper is not a stapler.


Early Staplers

So what was the first American stapler? That depends on what you define as a stapler. If you define a stapler as a portable device or machine that inserts and clinches a wire staple in paper in a single operation, then the first stapler was patented by Henry R. Heyl of Philadelphia, PA on September 20, 1877. It is obvious from the title of this patent "Improvement in devices for inserting metallic staples", that this device did not appear out of the blue. There was an evolution of paper fastening machines leading up to what we would now consider a stapler.
Here's a rundown:



1859
The first paper fastener was not a stapler but an eyelet machine. While most early eyelet machines were for leather fastening (think boot lace eyelets), there was a simple machine patented in 1859 that was designed (according to the patent description) to fasten "a number of folds of paper, cloth, leather, or other soft material". It is interesting that the description mentioned "paper" first.

This machine required three operations: Punch the material, insert the fastener, clinch the fastener. The main advantage of this press was that it had a single lever to both punch the material and clinch (swage) the eyelet.

This was the basic design for all eyelet machines, including the ubiquitous "Challenge Eyelet Press", until 1916 when the Ajax Eyelet machine automated the feeding, punching, and clinching into a single operation.




Rodgers's Eyelet Press


1868
We're getting closer now. In 1868, Albert Kletzker of St Louis, MO patented a device he called a "Paper Clip"

This machine used a staple to fasten paper. A single large staple was placed between the scary looking points on the base of the machine; the papers to be fastened were then placed on top of the points.

When the plunger was depressed, the points pierced the papers and inserted the staple.

This machine did not clinch the staple. After the staple was inserted, the papers and staple had to be removed from the machine and the staple ends bent over by hand.

A similar device was patented in 1874 by Abraham Goldsmith of Charleston, SC.




Kletzker's "Paper Clip"



1877
The first machine to insert and clinch a staple with a single operation was patented by Henry R. Heyl of Philadelphia, PA on September 25, 1877.

Examples of this machine exist but they are very rare. A computer glitch kept me from bidding on one of these in an online auction a few years back. I'm still pissed off about it.




H. R. Heyl's Stapler


1879
On February 18, 1879, George W. McGill of New York was awarded a patent for what would become the first commercially successful stapler - The McGill's Patent Single Stroke Staple Press. This device used wire staples that were inserted into the machine one at a time. The "Single-Stroke" part of the name derives not from the one-at-a-time loading of the staples, but from the fact that the machine inserted and clinched a wire staple in a single operation of the plunger. This set it apart from most other paper fasteners of the time that required multiple operations.

This machine is quite simple. It consists of a cast iron base with an anvil, and a pivoting arm that holds a spring-loaded ram that is actuated by a plunger. The anvil in the base is shaped so that it curls the points of the staple inward after they've pierce the paper. This machine was the first to use a fixed anvil in the base; one that is remarkably similar to that of modern staplers.






McGill's Staple Press


1895
The first strip-fed stapler, the Star Automatic Paper Fastener was introduced by the Jones Manufacturing Company of Norwalk, CT (later becoming the E. H. Hotchkiss Co.). This machine used tin-coated steel staples formed into a continuous strip. This type of machine was easy to load but because of the high cost of staples and the introduction of "cohered wire" (modern) staples, strip staplers had diminished greatly in popularity by the late 1920's (although they lingered around for decades - I have some Crofoot strip staples from the 1960's).




Star Automatic Paper Fastener

You started that? I thought it was Libertas who started the stapler obsession. He must have been the one to turn it from a simple stapler question to an Swingline OCD question.

Ah, that must have been in the first hundred pages I didn't read.

Oh Yeah, I do believe the swingline barrage started on page one.

Forget WOW and move over to Vanguard Saga of Heros, its a better game.