# Please don't sit on the copier butthead. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575 "2005-11-24T12:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/1 "2005-11-24T12:26:01Z")
The company kindly requests you refrain from breaking the photocopier during the office party. This article is great. Office repair calls go up 25% for the holidays. [http://news.com.com/Confessions+of+a+photocopier+repairman/2100-1041\_3-5969203.html](http://news.com.com/Confessions+of+a+photocopier+repairman/2100-1041_3-5969203.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/2 "2005-11-24T13:29:47Z")
😃 Has anyone on the Dope ever actually done this? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/3 "2005-11-24T13:45:26Z")
I was talking to someone that I was talking to at work. Out of the blue he says I wonder if I can copy my butt. He swings up onto the platten and presses the button and it doesn’t move. All that happened before I could react. The repair guy had to replace a broken wire that moved the platten. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/4 "2005-11-24T15:32:29Z")
\*\*Please don’t sit on the copier butthead. \*\* We have a copier butthead at my office too, but nobody has tried to sit on him that I know of. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/5 "2005-11-24T15:56:56Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > \*\*Please don’t sit on the copier butthead. \*\* > > We have a copier butthead at my office too, but nobody has tried to sit on him that I know of. Dammit. I had a joke too, but now it’s all waste. All dross. Stupid holidays. ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/6 "2005-11-24T16:47:46Z")
> [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > I was talking to someone that I was talking to at work. Did he answer you when he answered you at work? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/7 "2005-11-24T17:30:01Z")
> [@VegemiteMoose](#): > > Did he answer you when he answered you at work? 😉 That’s not a typo. I was doing the talking while we were busy in conversation. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/8 "2005-11-24T19:44:44Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > 😃 > > Has anyone on the Dope ever actually done this? Yes. Hey, I was in my twenties and I had to work Christmas Eve all by myself. You get lonely and bored, the mind wanders… ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/9 "2005-11-24T20:35:55Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Yes. > > Hey, I was in my twenties and I had to work Christmas Eve all by myself. You get lonely and bored, the mind wanders… …one thing leads to another and the next thing you know, your testicles are glued to a hamster and you’ve cracked a filling. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/10 "2005-11-24T20:50:41Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > …one thing leads to another and the next thing you know, your testicles are glued to a hamster and you’ve cracked a filling. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Maybe some have. I just went to art school. 🙂 Where we used the copiers in interesting ways. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/11 "2005-11-25T00:12:58Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > 😃 > > Has anyone on the Dope ever actually done this? I did. I was doing a project for a class, and I photocopied various body parts of mine and did some writing with it. I didn’t sit on the glass, though. I held myself mere millimeters from it and hit the button. It was very acrobatic of me, if I do say so myself, and the result is nicely obscure. When you sit right down on it, the level of detail is somewhat unappealing, I must say. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/12 "2005-11-25T00:18:17Z")
Dammit, it wasn’t me. It was that dillhole, Beavis. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/13 "2005-11-25T00:26:55Z")
I used to work at a copier dealer/repair place, and we had one customer that had two consistent problems – a jamming document feeder, and an insistence that the metering was wrong and he was paying way more for his toner contract than was normal. After several trips out there to repair the feeder and double-check the t-meter, the repair guy figured out what was going on, when he found several hundred copies of the bottom of a Tim Horton’s box (solid black everywhere else, because the lid was up, natch) in the trash. Turned out that the cleaning crew was warming up their doughnuts at night by putting them on the copier and running lots of copies. How f\*d up can you get? Don’t they know people put their asses on that glass? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/14 "2005-11-25T00:45:48Z")
How do you know the butthead didn’t just copy his face? Not near as funny as Chefguys, but it needed to be said. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/15 "2005-11-25T05:43:59Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I used to work at a copier dealer/repair place, and we had one customer that had two consistent problems – a jamming document feeder, and an insistence that the metering was wrong and he was paying way more for his toner contract than was normal. > > After several trips out there to repair the feeder and double-check the t-meter, the repair guy figured out what was going on, when he found several hundred copies of the bottom of a Tim Horton’s box (solid black everywhere else, because the lid was up, natch) in the trash. > > Turned out that the cleaning crew was warming up their doughnuts at night by putting them on the copier and running lots of copies. > > How f\*d up can you get? Don’t they know people put their asses on that glass? Oh we could trade stories! I worked at one of the bigger copier resellers in the Seattle area. People don’t seem to realize that glass isn’t much thicker than old fasion window or picture glass. There are also the toner clean-up calls that are either so stupid you want to go remove the air they’re wasting from the building or so funny you have trouble finishing the call. One woman called in tears because she got toner on her “Pooh Shoes” I wonder if she had a pair for tinkle too. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/16 "2005-11-25T06:07:50Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > …your testicles…cracked But the mere mention of sitting on photocopiers (along with testicle and cracked references), brings to mind this (alleged) [office surveillance video](http://www.freshtribe.com/video/photocopier_busted.aspx). It always slays me ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-sit-on-the-copier-butthead/332575/17 "2005-11-25T06:43:10Z")
- - - Petite women are allowed to sit on the copier at least once a year, it’s a Christmas-party tradition. 😃 ~