Talk:Bread clip

Physical features
The *-NRP series clip is obviously not as simple as it could be, so the irregular shape of its edges must have some purpose(s), but there is no mention, much less description of them. They are almost rotationally & translationally symmetrical. The edge irregularities could generally make the clip easier to grip, and the translational symmetry could save salvage during the stamping, except that it is not precisely, so why not. The 'mouth' has an inner pair of 'teeth', that seem unnecessary, but might allow for a wider range of bag neck sizes. The Manufacturer does not have a descriptive site, but might have some in their catalog that must be ordered. Boldklub-PJs (talk) 02:36, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Bread Climp
I'd edit the article to say "or bread climp" because that's what everyone I know has always called it but I do not want to get banned? What is going on with the Clip/Climp argument anyway?REGULAR-NORMAL (talk) 20:31, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This is what is going on - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3235581&pagenumber=5  Nancy  talk  12:49, 3 December 2009 (UTC)


 * "Climp" as a word for fastener is old and regional but it is still widely used in certain regions of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. My family still uses it. Its history began in the late 1780s and it was most popular in the late nineteenth century. It definitely belongs in the article. I read the website you linked to but it looks like a comedy message board. I don't see what it has to do with anything. Climp belongs in the article. Please stop editing it out. I've added a source from my library. Wood Thrush (talk) 00:07, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Untitled
Wow! An article on bread-clips... - Ta bu shi da yu 13:40, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Isn't Wikipedia swell? :) DopefishJustin (&#12539;&#8704;&#12539;) 16:32, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)

Floyd Paxton invented it
Floyd Paxton invented it.


 * That's good. Wasn't he from Idaho? ---Teentitans! 02:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


 * No he was from the Yakima, Washington area. Bdelisle 02:41, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Unidentified Flying Breadclip
I particularly like the very grainy image of one of these contraptions. It's as if they're very elusive objects that are only rarely sighted or caught on camera. I'm glad the human race now has an encyclopedia that has articles on things like this. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 06:50, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Does someone have a photo of the 'mechanical' breadclip? I'm having a little trouble picturing it from just the description, and I imagine others have as well. 72.131.11.47 23:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Floyd Paxton was originally from riverside, calif. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jennerann (talk • contribs) 04:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Canadian Milk Bags.
Um. Just so you know, we're not all lunatics. Could this possibly be changed so it specifies that the easterners are the crazy ones? Not that I've ever seen a milk bag even through my travels in Ontario, but it would make me feel better knowing at least the occasional American and those of other nationalities understood that we don't all live in igloos and eat baby seal roasted over an open fire with a bag of milk sitting in the ice fridge built into the side of our igloos. P.S. I am Canadian if you couldn't tell. Saskatchewan to be precise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.254.80 (talk) 02:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Bicycle Clips
I do apologize for being unable to cite my source for the Emergent Popular Use section. I hope someone else can find one. I certainly know it is true, and put it that anyone born in the 60s or 70s in Western culture will remember this practice to be true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tlozinski (talk • contribs) 10:56, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've seen them used as guitar picks, when we briefly did guitar stuff in music class in 7th grade. They can also be used to label individual electrical plugs, so you can tell which of the plugs in the power strip is the lamp and which is the scanner.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.249.207.195 (talk) 17:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Occlupanid
Please get rid of the "occlupanid", it's a completely artificial designation from a joke page: http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2

Arghman (talk) 13:26, 14 January 2019 (UTC)


 * which nevertheless ended up in a serious context, in a case study published by the British Medical Journal, presumably because as silly as HORG may be, it's still the best resource available for the classification of bread clips.
 * xmath (talk) 02:12, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * HORG is not a “joke page”, it is an group that researches and classifies of bread clips, just written in an a slight nonstanderd POV. 2007GabrielT (talk) 14:29, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Doubt about origin story
Paxton's own story about how he carved the prototype bread clip from "an expired credit card" is problematical for this reason: In 1952, when he said he did it, credit cards were made of metal (and called "Charge-a plate"). Plastic credit cards didn't arrive on the scene until the late 1950s. You can look this up on Wikipedia. Cpacker666 (talk) 03:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)