Via Swiss Miss
From looking around, it’s apparently originally from a designer call Justin David COX (his emphasise).
Of course my next response after laughing, being a computer geek and all, is that this doesn’t make any sense. The only logical progression is to either copy or cut something, and then paste it. That’s kind of the point of having those functions. I suppose the Copy Paste Dance would involve a bit more flailing, though I’m not sure if that would make it more or less suited to the IT folks.
From reading the comments on the original post, I’m apparently not the only one with this line of thought. From Yudhi:
I don’t get it, after you ‘cut’ something, then there’s nothing else to ‘copy’.. since everything has already been ‘cut’… the only next thing to do would only be ‘paste’…
you dig?
And after that, we immediately find out that the guy who made the poster is a total dick:
sorry you dont get it.
i know how computer works. i assume the same for everyone else, yet they still seem to get the poster. its just trying to represent the band’s name “Cut Copy” in a literal representation, not rewrite the technical functionality of a keyboard. thanks, for assuming we’re all idiots, though
Sorry for being slightly more familiar with universal keyboard short cuts than with an obscure Australian Indie Electropop group. Guess we’re all just not cool enough to understand the deep layers of meaning your fliers promoting bands. Also, learn how to use the shift key, ass. While we’re at it, learn how to properly use apostrophes, plurals, contractions, and commas too. In short, repeat grade school.
I would make a poster showing my literal representation of both the designer’s name and his personality in the same image, but I do have some standards around here.
that poster rocks. why the hate? it says what it is, and it does what it says. it’s good on it’s own without owing any apologies to you precious few cmptr-ltrt snbs
Hi TheWiz! I agree, the poster is really cool. I wouldn’t have put it on my blog if I didn’t think so. The whole thing is generally a collection of things that I think are cool and think other people will enjoy (with the occasional rant interspersed).
However, unless you read the extremely small print at the bottom of the poster, you can’t tell that it’s a band poster. Even then it’s a little bit of a stretch to put together if you’re not familiar with the band or the club, though I would assume it worked well for that purpose in it’s original context.
The hate (or, more accurately, mocking) isn’t for the poster, it’s for the designer’s extremely rude response to an entirely valid question about it. Well, that and his third grade level typing and butchering of the English language.
Hi Kearn!
I’m glad you like poster and I’m sorry you feel like I’m a dick. The “literal interpretation” comment concerning my last name made me laugh (no sarcasm).
About the the comment left on my site…
At the time, I thought the commenter was being smug and trying to point out he was smarter than everyone else. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t. Either way, my response might not have needed to be so sarcastic. I was trying to defend anyone who understood that cutting and copying was redundant but let it slide under the assumption that I understood that too.
I’m not sure sure why you needed to resort to the insults concerning my typing. I understand how punctuation and capitalization work, but I could care less about using them properly in an informal space such as my blog comments.
All that said, thanks for the reminder concerning Yudhi. I had honestly forgotten about the comment, as well as my response. Looking back now, I probably made some assumptions about his comment I shouldn’t have. I just ask you please don’t do the same concerning me. I know it can be fun to resort to sarcasm and insults, but I PROMISE I did fairly well on the written portion of my SATs ;)