Paper clips

When Prometheus moved into its “new” offices back in 2000, we had to stock up on office supplies. Marcie was charged with the task of ordering paper clips. There were 12 of us so she tried to order 12 boxes of paper clips. Instead she ordered 12 gross boxes of paperclips (12 x 144 = 1,728 boxes = 172,800 paper clips). And the total cost was still like $15 or something ridiculously cheap.

Anyway, on Slashdot today there’s a poll, Best artifact from your dot-com job? One of the choices was “200 boxes of paperclips” which got me cracked up laughing.