Acts of great 3vil

Goldom · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 12:12 am Post subject: Acts of great 3vil

I suppose this could have gone in the off-topic thread, but I felt something this satanically demonic deserved its own thread.

I need to bring to everyones attention a conspiracy of great evil going un-noticed in the world:

8.5 x 11 in. paper is no longer 8.5 x 11 in.

I noticed this while looking at a pack of new blank paper today, thinking 'my, this paper looks... really small...' and I checked the thing, and it says, 8 x 10.5 in! I then looked around at everything, and all paper, folders, notebooks, etc, from within the last year, are 0.5 square-inches smaller than they used to be!

The paper companies are stealing our paper slowly, all the while completely ignored by the world. God only knows what they will do next...

OpTlk · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 12:33 am Post subject:

You Bastards! you killed Kenny!

oh wait no you didnt...how dare you steal my .5 sq in of paper, just because you made it doesnt give you the right. hEh

good call goldom

must be some quiet way of trying to save the trees

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rAT bOY · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 12:55 am Post subject:

Actually they stole 9.5 sq. in. per 93.5 sq. in. of paper.
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ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 8:16 am Post subject:

The standard square format of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm we all use everday lets hope they don't shrink this one down. This is the toilet paper standard.

Here is the weight and size of american and european papers.

http://www.bracknet.com/ess/Graphics/isp3.htm

Goldom · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 10:22 am Post subject:

no where on that list do i see this 8 x 10.5 thing... something horribly horribly wrong is going on here. we must take action to save the future of blank paper!

hoaxie · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 10:39 am Post subject:

hmmmm, I was under the impression that notebook paper has been shorter than copier paper for a while now. My printer paper that I just bought is a whopping 8.5 x 11 as always. In fact, I just looked at an old spiral notebook that I have had for about 3 years now and the paper measures 10.5 x 8.5. Perhaps you're just a little slow Goldom. Maybe it has been assumed by most that the paper has been 8.5 x 11 simply because that is the standard for copier paper and printer paper.
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Goldom · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 12:05 pm Post subject:

Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

I have actually noticed that different sprials have different sizes as well. It could also depend on the type of paper it is. I don't really know.
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hoaxie · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 12:37 pm Post subject:

OK... I just looked at a pack of my son's college ruled notebook paper... 8.5 x 10.5. Goldom, have you been shopping at a paper outlet store... ya know, where all the irregular paper is sent?
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Kafaan · Registered User Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Posts: 10

Wow, and only Goldom would care enough to notice that our PAPER is smaller. But I do agree that it is messed up that they have changed the size, lets email the paper companies to complain. Its the right thing to do.
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Goldom · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 4:03 pm Post subject:

O_O Kafaan? Is that you?! O_o... scary... now all we need is Aal to come comment on this thread too...

I don't know about all that, i just know that the paper looks smaller than it did last year. I'm going to go find a notebook from last year and check. one second....

!!!!! They're all shrunken! How many years has this gone on without anyone noticing?! Where has the standard 8.5x11 paper gone????????

`RaphX · Registered User Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Posts: 1556

Long live imperial measurements

*Goes to the pub, which is about a mile away, for a pint*

gindapoo · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:32 am Post subject:

Goldom,

8"x10.5" paper has been around for years. It was available when I was in Jr. Hi. in the early 1980's. It was called "standard notebook" paper then and was not even uniformly 8"x10.5" in size--but always somewhat less than 8.5"x11". It was cheaper and really for classwork it doesn't make any difference. The uniform 8.5"x11" paper was a little more costly (better quality control) and was used for copying and typing. Spiral notebooks are by far the worst for accurate sizing (and from an instructor's point of view are the real 3vil in the world!)

Anyway, they have been shorting us about 9.5 sq.in. of paper per sheet for decades (which always meant that last calculus problem in college ended up on one sheet of paper all by itself--doh!)
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Goldom · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 12:39 pm Post subject:

i want legal action taken! giving us any less than 8.5x11 inches of paper should be against the law! I want $500000000 for my mental stress!

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