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...clip can be used as a cuff link, as a substitute for a lost eyeglass screw, or as a short-timer's chain (remove one per day till discharge...
...your story "The Gem of the Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...
...this area, full of cherry orchards, it is well known that the best tool for hand-pitting fresh sour cherries is a paper clip opened once lengthwise...
...findings: only one out of five was ever used to clip one piece of paper to another. Of the 80,000 others, 19,413 were used as chips in card games, 15,842 were wrapped in tissue for use as typewriter-key cleaners, 14,163 were bent into grotesque shapes during telephone conversations, 7,212 held ladies' stockings in place, 5,434 picked particles of food from between teeth, 5,309 cleaned fingernails, 3,196 reamed out pipes, 2,431 tightened screws, and 7,000 plain disappeared...
Some of the findings might not pertain to the U.S., but Americans are equally ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...