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How’s that for a group effort?

January 25th, 2013 · 57 comments

Erin in Los Angeles says it all started with a simple “No staples, please.” Then the whole office got involved.

related: Death by a Thousand Puns

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#1 Random

They missed “No, staples! Please!”

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:35 pm rating: 90

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- #1.1 H for Toy
  
  With a picture of Milton, from Office Space?
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 7:56 am rating: 90
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#2 William Raillant-Clark

“Go Maple Leafs” … umm… wut?

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:37 pm rating: 90

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- #2.1 Melba Toast
  
  Hockey team. Canadian. No further explanation required for the pluralization.
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 1:41 pm rating: 90
- #2.2 Tie Domi's Melon
  
  Sorry.
  
  With love and apologies,
  Canada
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 1:45 pm rating: 90
- #2.3 William Raillant-Clark
  
  Ummm, that wasn’t my point, but merci.
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 11:41 am rating: 90
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#3 Melba Toast

The post should have read “No Maple Leafs!” – Let’s go, Buff-a-lo!

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:37 pm rating: 90

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- #3.1 Tie Domi's Melon
  
  Hello, fellow Sabres fan! Blow, Leafs, blow!
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 1:43 pm rating: 90
- #3.2 Morbidda Destiny
  
  YES! Go Sabres!
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 1:59 pm rating: 90
- #3.3 Joe
  
  Let’s go Buffalo!
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 2:58 pm rating: 90
- #3.4 H for Toy
  
  Sabres fans?! I knew I liked PAN for reasons other than the notes! Anyone else not from Buffalo?
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 3:25 pm rating: 90
- #3.5 Acupunk62
  
  No Sabers, Please!
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 4:49 pm rating: 90
- #3.6 redheadwglasses
  
  Go Minnesota Wild!
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 7:59 am rating: 90
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#4 My name is Princess!

No Goat Cheese!

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:45 pm rating: 90

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- #4.1 Luka
  
  No Goatees, please
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 3:52 pm rating: 90
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#5 auntz

I dont know where this office is and I don’t care. I want to work there.

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:51 pm rating: 90

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#6 Jami

Some of those people forgot the please. The animals.

I would’ve put one up with a picture of Staples’ logo and added “We’re contracted with Office Depot.”

And with my current kick there would’ve been “More Rufus Sewell, please. (Cause he’s hot.)”

Also, I would love to work with people who have this type of a sense of humor. I would do anything including being their Official Staple Puller Outer.

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:55 pm rating: 90

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- #6.1 FeRD
  
  Hey, now… not every resident of the zoo is an unrepentant poo-flinger, yaknow. I was happy to see that, on at least one of the absent-mindedly rude versions, someone helpfully scribbled in an afterthought “Please”.
  
  The animals may not be perfect, but at least they’re trying. (So cute! Like they think they’s people.)
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 3:17 pm rating: 90
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#7 fuzzbutt

No Maple Leafs Please! Go Red Wings Please!

Jan 25, 2013 at 1:57 pm rating: 90

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#8 Hillary

I would like to work at this office, please.

Jan 25, 2013 at 2:00 pm rating: 90

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#9 Jdaniel

Definitely a government office.

Jan 25, 2013 at 2:29 pm rating: 90

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- #9.1 Jami
  
  LA? The line “Paperwork on this show will be scanned.” Yeah – it’s a tv studio.
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 2:44 pm rating: 90
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#10 Smokey

Are these people hiring?

Jan 25, 2013 at 3:05 pm rating: 90

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#11 TGIF

More cowbell, please!

Jan 25, 2013 at 4:22 pm rating: 90

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- #11.1 Ang
  
  Oh yes, more cowbell!!
  ~snort~ I was laughing but hit the cowbell comment did me in! Good one!
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 11:12 pm rating: 90
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#12 M

Why has nobody pointed out the missing commas? “Please is an interjection, so it should be:

“No staples, please.”

This office clearly does not hire grammar freaks.

Jan 25, 2013 at 5:26 pm rating: 90

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#13 H for Toy

No Ape-ulls (or banay-nays), please.

Jan 25, 2013 at 5:31 pm rating: 90

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- #13.1 Guest
  
  Pe-cawns, please.
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 6:07 pm rating: 90
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#14 AMoparGirl

I don’t get the PayPal reference.

Jan 25, 2013 at 5:48 pm rating: 90

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- #14.1 Macca
  
  Well, who would say “no” to being given money?
  
  Yes, paypal please!
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 1:35 am rating: 90
- #14.2 Clumber
  
  The little girl in the credit card company commercial.
  
  (Was going to write more, but the unintentional alliteration deserves to stand alone.)
  
  Feb 13, 2013 at 1:56 pm rating: 90
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#15 Rachel

I don’t get any of the references. Is this supposed to be amusing in some way? It just seems juvenile and irrelevant. Or is that the point?

Jan 25, 2013 at 7:44 pm rating: 90

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- #15.1 Omnivore
  
  I think people were just trying to make each other laugh with random notes after the first one.
  
  Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 pm rating: 90
- #15.2 Susan
  
  Are you serious? Engaging in juvenile and irrelevant actions is the only thing which keep me going at work some days…
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 4:30 am rating: 90
- #15.3 Susan
  
  That was meant to be in reply to no.15. Clearly I’m not technologically savvy enough to use this site.
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 4:31 am rating: 90
- #15.4 H for Toy
  
  No, you got it right, Susan. With both the comment and the placement
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 7:50 am rating: 90
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#16 Omnivore

I agree with the “Yes Draper Please” note wholeheartedly.

Jan 25, 2013 at 10:19 pm rating: 90

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#17 Poltergeist

These people are just the right amount of crazy.

No Sanity Please!

Jan 26, 2013 at 5:30 am rating: 90

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#18 Jami

You know, considering that this is obviously a tv studio with the whole mention of a show and all that, I’m kind of surprised no one went for the theater reference.

“No sex, please, we’re British.”

Erin, get on that right now! Along with my “More Rufus Sewell, please. (Cause he’s hot!)” one if I may be so bold. Then send us pictures of the updates.

Jan 26, 2013 at 12:16 pm rating: 90

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- #18.1 H for Toy
  
  Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Ruf… too much?
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 4:13 pm rating: 90
- #18.2 Jami
  
  You can never have too much Rufus!
  
  I can’t tell you what I like him better in – Dark City where we get to see his naked butt (and I’m not normally into butts), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter where he has fun chewing the scenery and biting his costars, or The Taming Of The Shrew where we see him in lipstick, miniskirts, fishnet stockings, and kinky boots.
  
  And then there’s Zen….
  
  Rufus Sewell needs to be a meme! If only for those sexy eyes of his.
  
  Back on topic – does anyone think that between the part about this being a show, LA, and the Draper this might be from the writers of Mad Men?
  
  Jan 26, 2013 at 5:41 pm rating: 90
- #18.3 redheadwglasses
  
  I just googled him. YUM. I’ve seen the face before, but the name is new to me.
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 11:54 am rating: 90
- #18.4 Jami
  
  Check out his credits on IMDB. He’s been in a lot of things but not always as the lead like The Holiday. I believe he was in one of the Zorro movies as well. Probably a few other movies you’ve seen.
  
  I tell you, it should be illegal for a man to have eyes that beautiful.
  
  And if you can go see Shakespeare Retold: The Taming Of The Shrew. It also stars Shirley Henderson AKA Moaning Myrtle AKA Ursula Blake (Doctor Who: Love & Monsters).
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 12:19 pm rating: 90
- #18.5 H for Toy
  
  It took me about half the episode to figure out that Ursula Blake was Moaning Myrtle, and that’s why she looked/sounded familiar.
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 12:46 pm rating: 90
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#19 redank

Go Sharks!

Jan 27, 2013 at 12:45 am rating: 90

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#20 Eileen

No Solid Gold dancers? People in this office are old enough to remember that show?

(I work in retail, with people who weren’t even born when I graduated high school. I feel sooooo old sometimes!)

Jan 27, 2013 at 9:00 am rating: 90

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- #20.1 FeRD
  
  I don’t know if they have to be old enough to remember the show; some of us actually do expose ourselves to the occasional bit of (hilariously-dated) history. Not that I’m all that young, at 38… but even I hardly “remember” Solid Gold. Though I like to think I could still whip out a Solid Gold Dancers reference, if push came to electric slide.
  
  …However, that doesn’t mean that reference won’t be lost on everyone else. I’m guessing that there was hardly anyone, other than the person who posted that iteration, who had the first clue what it meant.
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 3:11 pm rating: 90
- #20.2 Jami
  
  Heck, you don’t even have to be young to not get older references. I’ve talked to plenty of people who are old enough to remember when Johnny Carson took over the tonight show and even they couldn’t get the reference to one of Johnny’s repeat guests – The Amazing Kreskin. (And one guy even mixed him up with that idiot Uri Geller!)
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 3:42 pm rating: 90
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#21 TRT

Nasals sneeze!

Jan 28, 2013 at 4:26 am rating: 90

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#22 m9

someone please explain ‘paperwork on this show will be scanned’. show? is that the same as shelf?

Jan 28, 2013 at 1:35 pm rating: 90

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- #22.1 H for Toy
  
  See #9.1 for popular theory.
  
  Jan 28, 2013 at 2:05 pm rating: 90
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#23 Abby

No Papals Please…best one yet!

Jan 29, 2013 at 9:07 am rating: 90

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#24 JK

No capes! (please)

Jan 29, 2013 at 5:12 pm rating: 90

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#25 ZB

I want to go to (work) there.

Feb 6, 2013 at 8:19 pm rating: 90

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#26 spoonleg

“No gay bulls, please!” is the winner.

Feb 11, 2013 at 2:05 pm rating: 90

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#27 Raichu

I would love to work someplace where everyone has a sense of humor like this

Feb 14, 2013 at 4:59 pm rating: 90

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#28 T.Pike

Best one I’ve seen in a long time!

Feb 26, 2013 at 10:32 am rating: 90

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