i beLieve you have my stapLer

[sniffa]

[J-Lo Biafra]

1. "I could....set the building on fire..."

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. I could burn down the building

Milton is the man!!!!

On edit: I want one of these for Christmas.

[StopTheMorans]

3. uhhhh, yeah, i'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to get me those

TPS reports ASAP, mmmmk?

[sniffa]

4. did you get the memo?

[StopTheMorans]

7. yeah, yeah, i got the memo

[Phillycat]

6. That'd be greeeeat, thaaaaanks.

[StopTheMorans]

8. i'm gonna have to ask you to go ahead and move a little to the left,

mmmk? yeah, that's great.

[thoughtanarchist]

5. It's a little known fact there Normy...

...that Swingline never produced a RED stapler until after that movie created a demand...

[sniffa]

11. why, i'm just reading about that now

Edward T. McAvoy, production designer of the 1999 film Office Space, was pondering ways to accessorize that film's geeky character Milton and latched onto a stapler. He wondered, What could I do as a designer to make this stapler special so as to justify Milton's need to possess it and the bosses' need to covet it? He decided to make it fire-engine red. "I called Swingline and said, 'Do you make a red stapler?' and they said no," McAvoy recalls. "And I said, 'Well, do you mind if I use your logo on the side of a stapler I'm going to paint red?' They didn't mind at all." McAvoy took four Swingline staplers to a local auto-body shop and told the workers he wanted them "perfectly painted, just like you'd paint a car." He later added a computer-rendered logo.

http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101030811-472856,00.html

[Phillycat]

9. Best thing about that movie: the soundtrack.

And the "killing the printer" scene.

[Lavender Brown]

14. I always have the gangster song in my head

When I'm dealing with a rogue copier or fax machine in my office. :D

[Phillycat]

15. No shit! Me too!

Repairing the dot matrix printer (!) this morning, I was humming that song.

Yes, we do have normal printers too. But one of our systems still requires a DOT MATRIX FUCKING PRINTER. WITH THE HOLES IN THE SIDES OF THE PAPER.

[Lavender Brown]

16. Dude, who designed your office?

Fred Flintstone? ;)

[Phillycat]

17. HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Hey! That printer was an upgrade from the bird tapping out the reports onto a stone tablet! We're like, modern now and shit!

[Cadence]

20. PC load letter, what the #$@! does that mean?!

[Radical Activist]

22. This became a constant cry in my old office

with a bad copy/fax. Every couple days someone had to say that. I loved it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

28. What's your favorite Michael Bolton song?

I celebrate the man's entire catalog!

GREAT movie.

"'PC Load Letter'?" LOL

[motely36]

10. ok, now I'm feeling left out....

What the hell are we talking about?

[sniffa]

12. the movie, "officespace"

[motely36]

13. Ah, ok

Guess I will have to check it out.

[lpbk2713]

18. Fuggen "A"

[Cadence]

19. I used to sit where I could watch the squirrels

and they were merry...

but if he asks me to move my desk...

[DS1]

25. The quotes on the internet all say 'merry' but I'm convinced he said

"married" - which for me is even funnier, because that not only implies that he makes up their lives, but the squirrels have since had a divorce :-)

[Cadence]

26. You can watch it muted

with subtitles and catch everything Milton says...he says a lot more that's hard to catch normally. Very funny.

[Radical Activist]

21. I wouldn't say I've been *missing* it Bob!

one of the greatest movies ever made

[Aiptasia]

23. swingline had to start making red staplers because of that movie

How's that for impacting american culture?!?!

[BigMcLargehuge]

24. I could take my travelers cheques to a competing establishment...

I could write a letter to your government...

I said no salt NO SALT and there were great big grains of salt...

I could put strychnine in your guacamole...

[Cadence]

27. I did NOTHING.... and it was everything I thought it could be.

[PatriotGames]

29. Where are the cover sheets on the TPS reports?

[sniffa]

30. sounds great peter

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/officespace.html

[demily]

31. LOVE Office Space

This movie came out when I was in high school, and at the time I thought it was just and over-the-top parody. But now that I've worked in a couple of offices I know that they put real life on screen! We even have Hawaiian shirt day at my office!