The Mysterious Staple Remover

It’s about to turn into a staple.

How many times has this happened to you?

You stapled a stack of papers, but you need to take out that staple because it twisted into an impossible shape that wouldn’t hold two pages together, or you need to remove it  to insert a new page into the middle of the stack.

You look for your staple remover that always occupies pride of place on your desk.

It’s not there! What the heck?

So you remove the offending staple using your fingers. This happens all the time. Life is truly hard.

But then, BUT THEN, as soon as the staple is thrown away, the stapler reappears in the place it had always been. Can this problem of the disappearing stapler be solved?

NO.

But I can explain why this occurs. You can have a staple to be removed OR you can have a staple remover. But not both. Staples and their removers are merely two  forms of the same entity. It’s kinda like Clark Kent and Superman(tm). You never see the two of them together, because they are the same being.

I hope that this, at least, solves the mystery. Carry on the best you can.

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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