We are but a little gleam of time between two Eternities, so why then did I spend two hours standing in front of the copy machine today?

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Please explain.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Life! Oh Life! Oh Liii-i-ife, oh life!

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Infinity makes all its cash by supplying photocopier parts and toner.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

no matter who is boss of you
you can still be boss of the copy machine.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Teeny you apparently use a miraculously efficient copy machine. :(

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I realize now that the thread should have read "Life is but a little gleam of time between two Eternities, so why then did I spend two hours standing in front of the copy machine today?"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I still don't know the answer.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Quite possibly you have a crush on the copy machine and even though the two of you can never be together you cannot resist the sound of her voice and her bubbling laughter, dooming you to waste hours and hours of time which could be spent on more productive pursuits in her presence, trying to think of witty things to say

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because you don't hire enough student assistants?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Enthusiastic little English undergrads who will happily slap photocopiers for minimum wage just to peek at some uncorrected proofs and meet people they're told are important?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually we have plenty of those, but I feel guilty asking them to do my photocopying. I'm afraid they'll say "this job's for the birds" and abandon us altogether.

I'm afraid I can't maintain an aura of importance for more than 20 seconds. Today I was introduced to our newest intern (who meets your description) and after she left my "office area" (*ahem* cubicle *ahem*) I discovered I had cookie crumbs all over my sweater.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

six months pass...

Spending time with the copy machine is getting tougher now that I know when I'm leaving.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

don't short out the copier with your tears. It isn't manly.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

make a photocopy of yer ass

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

my best thread title, maybe.

― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 9 May 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link

Indeed it may be.

I have decided that photocopiers can smell fear.

― C J, Monday, 10 May 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link

our photocopier, otoh, has just manifested a fell smear

― Black IP's (darraghmac), Monday, 10 May 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link

did you forget to wipe?

― Did you in fact lift my luggage (dyao), Monday, 10 May 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

nuttin to do wit me pal

― Black IP's (darraghmac), Monday, 10 May 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

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