D*mn, I knew my office was to the red, and now, I have proof.

[MsUSA]

I work in an alumni office and we buy little doodads with our name, address and some motivational slogan on them for promotional reasons. Today, the shipment came in and guess what color the giant paper clips were??? RED!!! I refused the one offered to me and the fellow staff member looked surprised and I asked why are they red, he said because everyone in the office voted for that color. I said I voted for blue and handed it back to him. :-(

[Dookus]

1. Really?

You now hate the color red? That seems excessive.

[porphyrian]

2. Quit.

Your office if full of fucking traitors.

[Walt Starr]

3. You'll probably be downsized within a week

No dissension in the ranks.

[buddysmellgood]

4. You're too easy. You should have set yourself on fire.

That's a joke.

[Sweet Pea]

5. Bet you have a problem with red stop lights?

tomatoes? brake lights? hot fingernail polish?

[MsUSA]

7. No problem with stop lights, tomatoes, brake lights or hot

fingernail polish, just red paper clips that office * supports voted on.

[trotsky]

6. C'mon, it's just a color.

The electoral maps when Clinton ran colored the Clinton states red. The networks flop the colors every election for the incumbent party. It just happened to work out for 2000-2004 to be red both times for Repukes. If the pattern holds, they'll be blue in 2008. Are you gonna hate blue then?

[MsUSA]

8. Have always loved the color blue, so I hope they don't flop them

again. Sapphire blue is my birth date color, sky blue, blue eyes, yup, I love the color blue.

[Walt Starr]

9. Actually, that was true until 2004

2004 was the first year they did not flip the colors. Blue used to ALWAYS be the incumbent party. Al Gore was blue because the Democratic PArty was the incumbent party.

As of 2004, Red is forever more thye color of the Republicans and Blue is forever more the color of the Democrats. It will never ever change again.

[trotsky]

14. No, I know that can't be right.

Clinton's states were red both times he won. Here's the formula as I understand it: the incumbent party flips every 4 years.

1992 Bush (Blue) vs. Clinton (Red) (incumbent party blue)
1996 Clinton (Red) vs. Dole (Blue) (i.c. red)
2000 Gore (Blue) vs. Dipshit (Red) (i.c. blue)
2004 Dipshit (Red) vs. Kerry (Blue) (i.c. red)

They kept with the pattern. What will be interesting to see, however, is if they keep with it next time, since then the Repuke will be due for blue and the Democrat red. But the red=repuke, blue=dem imagery has really been beaten in by the media.

[ArkDem]

10. But red is the color of the proletariat.......

[The Revolution]

13. I Know!

How did the Fascist party end up adopting the color of Communism?

[Blue Wally]

16. When I was a kid

Democratic campaign signs/buttons were always green and Republican signs/buttons were always red, white, and blue. I have quite a few Stevenson-Sparkman buttons and a few I Like Ike buttons (I always traded after the election with the Republicans so i had a full set of souvenirs.

[hippiegranny]

11. Better Red Than Dead

Don't use the paper clips if they offend you, but try not to make too much of this. It will eat you alive. Take a deep breath. Now, do you feel a little better? :)

[annabanana]

12. Let them know a little "paper clip" history!

A Little-known Fact about the Paper clip

During the five year long Nazi occupation of Norway, in World War II, the paper clip became a symbol of national unity. It was worn with pride even though this simple show of loyalty risked wearers being arrested, deported, or even executed.

[davsand]

15. Maybe they voted to buy RED?

I might be suffering with morning fog-brain here, but is it possible the office voted to buy red paper clips and nothing more? Maybe they had a choice between red, green, blue, yellow, black or white???

Is it possible they are just paper clips and not political statements?

I dunno--I'm having a tough time getting terribly worked up on this one--but it could just be that I need more coffee...


Laura