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yeah, I’m going to need you to re-submit your graph.
It’s just we’re putting new coversheets on all the graphajm submissions before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that’d be great. All right!
Didn’t you get that memo?
I’ll be sure you get a copy of that memo.
[Funny thing is, the pre-Office Space sales should be at 0]
Yep, that’s what I was gonna say!
Before Office Space, Swingline did not even MAKE red staplers. The props dept just painted one for the movie. Now, we can all own one in red Swingy goodnesss!
Damn, really? I did not know that.
I’m gonna redo it to leave out the “Red” bit then.
(If an admin reads this can you delete my graph? Sorry for the trouble but we must strive for accuracy!)
They still don’t. Since the iconic red stapler was a stage prop, someone else’s stapler painted red, they have not, do not, and never will make Milton’s stapler. Which upsets me. We just had this conversation at work the other day.
Actually, I used to work with a woman who had a red Swingline stapler, and it was not painted red.
Coincidentally, she also had a TPS Report Coversheet stapled to the inside of her cubicle, and an Initech mousepad.
She shared my name, and absolutely HATED the movie Office Space. Can’t you tell?
yeah they do, I have one!
http://www.acco.com/swingline/productdetail.aspx?sku=S7074740&cat=1003
FACE!
Sure they do. My husband and son bought me one when I got my current office job.
Man, you beat me to it… I guess I got nothing to say now.
Actually that should be 0 sold before the movie. They didn’t even exist.
Hold the phone!
According to IMDB:
“The iconic red stapler coveted by Milton was created for the film by the prop department. They needed a bright enough color to be seen on film and chose red. After the film was released, Swingline began to receive requests from customers for red staplers. Having stopped offering red a number of years before, they made the decision to start offering the color once more.”
So my graph *is* accurate!
Uh, I have a red Swingline stapler on my desk. It is not a stage prop and I ordered it from an office supply catalog. The funny part? The packaging of the stapler makes a funny subtle reference to the movie:
Inside the clear plastic packaging case the color is listed as “rio red” and it is listed as a “collector’s edition”, 747 Stapler, with two bulleted attributes below the stapler name:
“- The star of any office space”
“- Legendary performance and durability – Bold design”
I haven’t been able to throw the package away just in case someone would call into question its authenticity.
ThinkGeek sells ’em too. And I have one! (That’s what inspired me to make the graph.)
i ordered this margarita with no salt.
NO SALT!
The thing that ammuses me is the fact that this site reffers to the comments as TPS reports, yet this is the first graph, to my knowledge, that makes a refference to Office Space.
Link me if I’m mistaken on that please.
the real problem with the graph is that it is in percentage. percentage of what? of total swinglines sold? total staplers? what you are actually measuring is the number of red swinglines sold not the percentage! or the percent change in the number of staplers sold. either way its no funny because it just states a fact. making it a graph does not make it funny. it has to be funny or cleaver first then the graph can make it better.
oi
I bought one for a manager when he left our company (it was about 2001)–they did not have red available at the office supply store, but they had maroon. It was close enough–we all cracked up over it at his going away party.
Costco has them, at least in the Cincinnati/Tri-County store off Kemper Rd. They are in the office supply section at eye level. They have all sorts of colors so you may have to dig for it in the box. They are around $10.
And they are not exactly like the one in the movie. The one in the movie has Swingline written in black on the side, not the golden badge with the name on the top like the retail version have. It is a small difference, but it is close enough for fans I guess.
The Myth – During the production of the movie Office Space the production designer Edward T. McAvoy had to solve a problem. How to make a stapler that was so special that the film’s character Milton would absolutely not allow his stinking boss Bill Lumberg to steal it from him and keep it. How would one said production designer do so? Well, by giving Milton a fire engine red Swingline stapler of course! With this idea in head, he called up Swingline and asked if they made such a stapler. They unfortunately did not. McAvoy then asked: “Well, do you mind if I use your logo on the side of a stapler I’m going to paint red?”. Swingline did not mind. So McAvoy took 4 staplers down to a local auto-body shop and told them to make them perfectly painted, just like you’d paint a car.” Their handy work can be seen changing hands throughout the movie.
Office Space was released in 1999 and it was not until 2002 that after many requests from movie fans, Swingline decided to create and sell a red stapler. It was in July of that year the company began started selling the Rio Red 747 Business Stapler (SWI74740/SWI74736). Since then, the stapler has begun popping up on desks in offices around the world. When someone see’s a red Swingline on your desk, and they are quote unquote, “In the know”, it really says something about you. The only thing bad about having one, is keeping people from stealing it.
Source: http://www.RedSwinglineStapler.com