# Office Supply Store Thunderdome! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485 "2016-05-23T20:56:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/1 "2016-05-23T20:56:13Z")
Keeping with tradition that began with the Hardware Store Arena, no we have … The Office Supply Store Thunderdome. However, in this fight, you can use 1 object as a weapon or combine up to 2 objects to make 1 weapon. What will you choose? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/2 "2016-05-23T21:19:21Z")
Guillotine paper cutter. Remove the knife for a weapon, put it back on to carry out sentences after war crimes trials. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/3 "2016-05-23T21:35:07Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Guillotine paper cutter. Remove the knife for a weapon, put it back on to carry out sentences after war crimes trials. That’s a winner in one. Other than maybe throwing copier toner in someone’s eyes, I can’t think of a more lethal office weapon than a paper cutter. Fun anecdote: I worked at an advertising agency that had a super extra large model guillotine cutter (big enough that you could use it to trim billboard sheets.) They named it [The Bobbitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt). ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/4 "2016-05-23T22:31:03Z")
One of those heavy, metal cellophane tape dispensers, with a serrated cutting blade. Braid some twine(sold to tie up collapsed cardboard boxes for recycling) and attach it to the tape dispenser. Use this new weapon as a mace to bash your opponents, the cutting blade will inflict even more damage. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/5 "2016-05-24T04:33:51Z")
For close-quarters combat, make a cat-o-ninety-nine tails with a tub of Red Vines. Do a Wile E. Coyote thing and drop cases of copier paper on the unsuspecting. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/6 "2016-05-24T15:14:44Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Do a Wile E. Coyote thing and drop cases of copier paper on the unsuspecting. Actually, [if you can beat someone with a telephone book](https://books.google.com/books?id=-L8GtJY_J00C&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=beating+with+a+telephone+book&source=bl&ots=uexa3HAPX_&sig=fJN1MN5LC4iHeS0E3tUnLdn6KTE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimmfnR__LMAhUWT1IKHcm2C0gQ6AEISzAJ#v=onepage&q=beating%20with%20a%20telephone%20book&f=false), you should be able to do it with a ream of copy paper, as well. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/7 "2016-05-24T17:36:29Z")
I say do like the pro wrestlers and beat someone with folding chairs. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-supply-store-thunderdome/755485/8 "2016-05-24T19:09:35Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > I say do like the pro wrestlers and beat someone with folding chairs. Or do like SCA and go jousting with the rolly chairs and a presentation pointer.