Ode to a stapler

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Hey Joe

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Since the beginning of time, I have had many staplers. I have had a standard workhorse stapler that got the job done but didn't exactly set the world on fire with its ergonomic design. I have had a pop-culture referential red stapler that was a good for nothing layabout that jammed half the time, very frustrating when you can't find a paperclip, let me tell you! But none, have compared to the stapler I have in my hot little hand right now.

It's a Stanley Bostitch, for those of you in the know, you'd already be aware of it's competition leading efficiency, but this year Stanley have truly blown me away with a mixture of form and function that is hard to beat.

Yea, if God had a stapler, it would verily be a Stanley Bostitch. Yet there is something darker about this device that speaks to a more satanic origin, almost if it were calling to me to do unspeakable acts.

It's just so...sexy.

Let's begin with the essential functions and work our way up to the more elegant design shall we?

First of all, you'll no doubt be relieved to hear that it holds a standard 10mm clip so you'll no longer have to worry about getting to the specialty staples shop before it closes. If I had a stapler for all the times I've been caught outside the staples store at closing time, I would be in some sort of orgasmic nirvana.

It's spring loaded, so it operates quite like the standard stapler, which you would think would be something holding it back from greatness but instead I see it as a plus. Think back on all the great innovations of stapler loading mechanism history, and you'll find that the spring loaded is indeed the mechanism that has stood the test of time. Indeed, it's so simple to operate that a child could do it (ages 5 and up).

Once you have your staples ready to go, you'll want to know if the stapler can go all night long...by which I mean whether it won't fail you on sheet 999 of a massive stapling party.

I'm pleased to report that it can go the distance and more, its stamina was quite a pleasant surprise that it had me wondering why I ever went around that that stupid old paperclip...in my pocket.

You could literally staple all day with the Stanley Bostitch, it's that reliable, and the satisfaction you get from the crisp sound of paper being penetrated kept this reviewer up through many a lonely night.

But now, we come to the real sexiness, its design.

It employs the Strapford-upon-Hertforshire school of stapler design, and the Stanley Bostitch has all the hallmarks of veteran designer Thomas Scrote.

None of this smooth and sleek design that have you in two minds as to whether or not you're looking at a stapler, instead, the Scrote design leaves you in no doubt as to what you're looking at. He manages to capture the aesthetic of stapler deign over the last 50 years and condense it into something so pure, to typical of the beauty of the stapler that, I'm not afraid to admit this, I bawled like it was my first stapler all over again.

By God I'm glad I have my Scrote...umm...Scrote-designed stapler by my side!

In summary, if you appreciate the beauty and raw sexual power of the stapler, you have to buy the Stanley Bostitch for you and everybody you know. Together, we can make the whole world cry with the sounds of a million sheets of paper being penetrated by the Bostitch.

It's quite simply, a masterpiece of stapler deign and this will be the model that they study in classrooms for years to come.

20 BILLION STARS

P.S- I'm so lonely.
 

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when i was in junior high i pretend the staplers were guns and shoot them at other people but on to the main subject this review is pretty amazing over great work keep up
 

Aconite333

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I can't make fun of you.

Hell, if I had an extremely well-crafted piece office equipment with me right now, I'd right a write a review praising its sexiness.

I personally prefer pencil sharpeners.
 

DeadlyYellow

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Hah. Awesome. I have an old Bates 550 on my desk, not as sexy but makes me think of old Cadillacs.
 

The Iron Ninja

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My Stapler is an Isaberg ab Hestra, is this a good brand?

Nice review, definately beats reading what would likely be the hundredth Halo 3 review.
 

Hey Joe

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DeadlyYellow post=326.70936.710246 said:
Hah. Awesome. I have an old Bates 550 on my desk, not as sexy but makes me think of old Cadillacs.
Ahh yes, I remember the Bates 500 from my days backpacking around the staple houses of Europe. I think it was in Tblisi that I first saw it...I remember being quite pleased with the aesthetic qualities of the 500 after touring Germany. Those Germans can make a stapler efficient as hell but they don't know the meaning of the words 'visual design'.

I remember I was taking tea with Tbili's foremost stapler expert Hans Jkialkis when I spied it on the countertop in his study. This wasn't amongst the prize collection though, it was his own personal stapler. He said he would sit in his study and merely look upon the Bates 500 to remind him of what made the stapler so great.

Truly sir, take heart in the great honour bestowed upon the 500 by the grandfather of Eastern European stapler design.
 

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The Iron Ninja post=326.70936.710253 said:
My Stapler is an Isaberg ab Hestra, is this a good brand?
Ahh, the Isaberg was actually a controversial development in stapler history. You'll notice that one of the key features of the Isaberg is the plastic moulding employed in the design, and up until that point there was great debate within the stapler community as to which way to go re: plastics.

Up until that point it was all platic, and I remember being at the Inernational Board for Stapler debate on the issue back in '78. The words and staples flew that day, but nobody had the stones to come up with a definitive position, but the designer of the Isaberg was a rebellious man by the name of Jose Gilmaez.

Mr Gilmanez as I'm sure you're aware went onto create the Gilded Hall model, the t-5000 and the Radichi, which all show the radical spirit of that early Isaberg.
 

Leodiensian

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I advise that you do not put your dick in that stapler, no matter how sexy it is.

It's just not worth it.
 

Jordan Deam

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I once stapled a classmate's thumb in elementary school. Can't remember the brand of stapler I employed, but the kid didn't seem too impressed either way.
 

Anton P. Nym

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I half expected this to be about a red Swingline... nifty change of pace here in the review section, anyway.

-- Steve
 

bodyklok

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amazing just amazing. If you could find the time could you please review a brand of pencil sharpereans may not be as artsy as the stapler community but we can still appreciate a good review.

PS. Picture of the Stanley bostitch.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Stanley_bostitch_stapler.JPG/800px-Stanley_bostitch_stapler.JPG
 

asacatman

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Yay, staperlers! Great reveiw, although to be honest, I wouldn't want the reveiw section full of staperler reveiws.
 

Mukiwa

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You sir are my hero.

I was this close to heading over to ebay right now in search of a stapler to call my own.