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I like the smallest ones that are yellow.
Do you use them? Why?

― erik, Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to avoid them. And they're the bane of library workers when students forget to take them out when they return the books. GRRR.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, just think of the damage a stray post-it could do!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

*bows* My dear Martin. Besides the tedium of having to remove the damn things when there are, oh, say, up to a hundred wedged into a thick book that's half falling apart, there is such a thing as actual damage to the pages -- obviously not as bad as directly writing in the book or soaking it in brine or whatever, but it has occurred, we've found, depending on the book and how long the tags have been sitting in there. And the one time I tried to make it known to some of the grads around here about how that was not nice, one response made it seem like we at the library were the ones causing problems for them. My sympathy level = low.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Fair enough, Ned. I actually like it when library or secondhand books have notes or pencilled marginalia - often top entertainment. I particularly like my edition of one Jane Austen (Mansfield Park, poss) which is annotated quite frequently with the word "IRONY". The annotater spots maybe one tenth of the ironies in the first several pages, then gives up. And I love finding bits of paper in old books.

I should note that I am scrupulous about care of library books. I generally return them in better condition than I got them in, and I would never write in them or stick things to them.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"I generally return them in better condition than I got them in" = all the silly opinions in 'em are of course corrected in biro, for which the future will thank me

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Then Martin = good man. Mark S = a creative genius that has taken up the dare of Joe Orton.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I love post-it's, I waste them by drawing pple with triangle eyes all over them. And I do rather enjoy chucking out post-it's that contain orders for me to do something at work, I can then say "well, you shouldn't put it on a post-it, I just throw them away"

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I find the wee post-it's too small but then when I graduate to a larger size I end up ripping them up into smaller bits. I suppose I ought to distinguish in future between 'post-it notes as place markers' and 'post-it notes on which to write messages'. They're a genius idea though, the secret being in the formula for the glue they use. I wish I had the patent.

― Gordon (Gordon), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

In the 'House of Bath' Xmas catalogue that came w/ this week's Radio Times you can buy a silver plated post-it note holder for only £12.95!! It is part of their 'silver sentiments' range!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)

posh it

― erik, Monday, 7 October 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

post its are great.
i like the square ones, the little ones are too small for me to write all my stuff on and only useful as markers in books ( ned i promise i actually use bookmarks not post-its ).

― donna (donna), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

as bookmarks i use strips of bacon ned is this cool?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

No mark, that is evil. Bacon in books is the most evil thing you can smite a librarian with.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread has me craving pot stickers. mmmm . . . bacon

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

What about avocado?

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm . . . bacon ned . . .

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:07 (twenty-three years ago)

avacado is acceptable. Did you know most libraries are fitted with a bacon detector?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother used to be a librarian and was amazed at some of the things ppl used for bookmarks...a rasher of bacon and a wage packet were her favourites (I never asked her whether it was a cooked or raw rasher). When were Post-its invented anyway?

I rarely use them myself.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

some dude at 3m invented post it notes, made a fortune!

the mother of the wooly hat wearing guy in the monkees invented tippex.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Romy invented post-it notes!!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

3m eh? Cabbage's former employer. Cabbage to thread!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.3m.com/about3M/pioneers/fry.html

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

aw, Art Fry thinks of the post-it notes as his little children

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

aww. what a cute, deluded old millionarie

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i am NOT a millionaire!

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad used to be in the same lab as the guy who invented Post-Its.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

my mum invented oxygum

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Love is like oxygum (but oxygum is not like love)

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i carry pink ones in my pocket-so i can use them for phone numbers, adresses, little flights of fancy, scraps of found verse, etc. Then i take them out at night, and write them down in the write place or pin them to my cork board. also they are pink.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 7 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the neon colored ones in all different sizes...they brighten up my otherwise dull cubicle.

― nory (nory), Monday, 7 October 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Post-it books make fantastic flip books, watch as the little stick figure man explodes !

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 7 October 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate people who write in library books.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm . . . bacon ned . . .

This is a vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought I'd be a clever bastard for my high school reunion and put that I invented Post-Its on the little info update form. I mentioned this to a friend, and she said that one of her friends did that for her reunion, and maybe 10% of the people got the joke. Then I realized that my doing so was unoriginal and likely to not be understood. Turns out that the people doing the info update book decided to throw out any smart-ass comments (including mine of course).

― Ernest P., Monday, 7 October 2002 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Post-its are classic for editing when the client doesn't want any marks (permanent or otherwise) on the copy. Of course, every such text I've seen has so many errors in need of fixing that it becomes twice its original weight, from the post-its.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I stuck em all over my research books (not library ones Ned, Jel). If you stick enough in it's like a little forest bristling out from the top and sides, and they become completely useless (they reach a kind of critical mass whose only message is 'post-it notes. some important stuff might be here somewhere. or it might not matter anymore'). The sight of a book covered in yellow post-its makes me sick to my stomach; it just says 'unfinished work'.

― Ellie (Ellie), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Rosemary, so do I! And usually the prev readers have underlined trivial lines. hah!

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Can people start referring to me as ilXor.com Corporate Scientist, please?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I got 3 sizes on my desk from the tiny ones, to meduim to silly large sizes along with assorted color of post it flags.
but al my scribblings on them become illegable two weeks after I wrote them so they tend to be my cubicle and monitor's version of flaky skin.

I've had too much coffee.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

post-its were invented my Mira Sorvino. Lisa Kudrow didn't help

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Monday, 7 October 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

erm, hello, yes I used to work for 3m, apparently the bloke didn't make loadsa money out of them as all inventions created in their labs are property of the company and not the inventor.

I used to work for the company that made them yes? We used to buy Niceday generic ones as they cost us less.

― chris (chris), Monday, 7 October 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

...and they had a cute animal on the packaging, no doubt.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

I wonder how many important decisions are made in a "Write your top three priorities on a PostIt Note" sort of way?

― djh, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 19:59 (two years ago)

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