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Alternative uses of paperclips

by taw
8th Jan 2012
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Squiggle Maximizer (formerly "Paperclip maximizer")
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Alternative uses of paperclips
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[-][anonymous]14y230

Something like this, perhaps?

(Sedlec Ossuary)

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[-]Matt_Simpson14y100

Am I the only one who thought that looked awesome?

Edit: Does an upvote of this signify that the individual also thinks this room is awesome or that I am in fact the only one that thinks it's awesome?

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[-]tut14y50

I found it awesome too. I would even go so far as to venture that it was the intention of whoever built the place that anyone that entered it would find it awesome.

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[-]Vaniver14y160

Clippys post pictures of alternative uses of humans.

Do humans have uses besides holding paper together, or fashioning metallic objects that do so?

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[-]TheOtherDave14y80

Maintaining and advancing the infrastructure that allows and encourages other humans to fashion such objects? Though admittedly that's a derivative value.

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[-]wedrifid14y20

Do humans have a use besides holding paper together, or fashioning metallic objects that do so?

Is it acceptable to make paperclips out of, say, bone? Or are the humans only useful for the iron they contain (and a touch of carbon to form the alloy.)

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[-][anonymous]14y00

I think a sufficiently advanced clippy would be able to do a lot more than steel.

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[-]wedrifid14y70

It's a matter of what kind of paperclipper it is. If it was created to make paperclips where paperclips are defined as steel paperclips of given dimensions then it doesn't matter how advanced it becomes. It'll make steel paperclips.

Mind you it can still use our atoms in a fusion generator.

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[-]wedrifid14y20

It just occurred to me that it is iron that is the building material required. That being the case everything in the human body (and the universe) represents either a building material or a potential source of nuclear energy. How convenient!

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[-]Armok_GoB14y00

Huh? I think your grammar broke. Or you're trying for some kind of very far fetched pun. Either way, please clarify.

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[-]arundelo14y20

The second sentence begins with an absolute phrase. My Little, Brown Handbook says that these are "always set off from the rest of the sentence with punctuation, usually a comma". In this instance the comma would come between "case" and "everything".

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[-]wedrifid14y00

Huh? I think your grammar broke.

Not especially. I simplified things somewhat but I don't think it was necessary.

Or you're trying for some kind of very far fetched pun. Either way, please clarify.

I'm confused. What isn't clear? The physics reference?

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[-]Armok_GoB14y00

huh? No. The confusing parts are "building material" and "represents" I think.

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[-]hamnox14y40

I like the pattern it makes on the walls and ceiling. I want one for my room.

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[-]lukeprog14y20

See also: The Paperclip Art of Tim Sterling.

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[-]thomblake14y00

Somewhere in the distant galaxy, Clippys make paperclips.

FTFY

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