What Do You Call a Bunch of Staples?

[bobgaggle]

So my shop has been in an argument about what to call this...

Yes they're narrow crown staples, but what is it called when they're all glued together waiting to be fired? I've been calling it a 'sleeve', but people are insisting its a 'rack', a 'bar', a 'clip'. What do you call it?

 

[Amiers]

A rail

 

[gafftapegreenia]

I usually call it a clip in a poor attempt at humor. But I might also call it a stick, a row, or the names you mentioned.

Let's make this thread a poll! [Edit by Mod.--Done!]

 

[JohnD]

In the Wikipedia article they seem to be called "strips".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_(fastener)
The term is mentioned in the paragraph "Staples in construction" but then the photo of a bunch of strips calls them a "pile"
Now, shall we consider the collective noun for stagehands? I favor "a creep of stagehands".

 

[mikeydoesstuff]

Now, shall we consider the collective noun for stagehands? I favor "a creep of stagehands".

I think we should call them a murder of stagehands.

 

[sk8rsdad]

Wiktionary says the collective noun for stagehands is a brace.

 

[RickR]

A brace is UK English for 2.
I've always used "crew"

 

[porkchop]

Um. How about a Giant Evil Corporate Empire..... or are we not talking about the place to buy staples.

 

[gafftapegreenia]

I think the correct term for a group of Stagehands would be gang.

 

[sk8rsdad]

How about a deck?

 

[StradivariusBone]

This is interesting. I've just called them staples. But now that I'm thinking about it, I feel like it should be called a bolt of staples. Don't know why, just feels right.

 

[Dionysus]

Ive always called them a "strip" of staples.

 

[Catwalker]

I like the term "balloonephant"to describe staples. (Okay, you caught me, I made it up.)

 

[JohnD]

I like the term "balloonephant"to describe staples. (Okay, you caught me, I made it up.)

Twas brillig, never mind the slithy toves.

 

[kicknargel]

We use "slouch of stagehands."

 

[tjrobb]

A torus of stagehands? Slides into donuts.

 

[techieman33]

I've always called them a strip of staples.

 

[Les]

I call it "a thing of staples for the staple gun" because ain't nobody got time for that

 

[AudJ]

Refill

 

[MarshallPope]

Agrred with Les - I just call it a "thing of staples." A Texas-ism?