WANTED... a word to describe the way paper comes out of a printer

[ScotiaLass]

"You t*tw*ank, arseyb*llocked, wetspot-on-the-sheets, fellatio-giving, illegitimate son of a female dog" she screamed as the paper ejaculated to a halt half way through.
"Oh", she declared, I think I've just described my love life..."

 

[Fab Foodie]

"You t*tw*ank, arseyb*llocked, wetspot-on-the-sheets, fellatio-giving, illegitimate son of a female dog" she screamed as the paper ejaculated to a halt half way through.
"Oh", she declared, I think I've just described my love life..."

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Fair enough, but if you want to avoid your work sounding like it came out of a bog-standard creative-writing group, Monty, you could do worse than to look up Mark Twain's advice about adjectives.

"Bog-standard"? I beg your farking pardon madam!

 

[Over The Hill]

I think we don't really notice it moving out of the printer just when it is there so it is an appearance rather than a movement.

So simply "Appeared" or Materialised.

Good luck with the other 9,999 words

 

[Fab Foodie]

The paper de-printered .....

 

[Beebo]

The paper pogoed out if the printer.

 

[Fnaar]

The paper almost fell from the printer, like so much placenta, some time after the ideas had been born, and just as useless and unwanted, like clearing up after a game of monopoly, or cleaning the cooker after a slap up meal. Or something.
"I say", ejaculated Gervaise, "anyone for a game of 'keys in the bowl'?"
Miss Goodbody purred, like a sort of cat.
Gervaise unzipped his cardigan, and waving the end of his belt around, he shouted "Oh joyous day!"
Just then, there was a timid knock at the door. The unmistakeable shape of the Vicar could be seen through the smoked glass.
"Bollocks!" said Miss Goodbody. I wish that daffodil would stop coming round in the evenings.

 

[Fnaar]

Trust me (I'm an editor), it doesn't. Unless this is a crucial plot device it doesn't even need mentioning.

I'm sorry TMN, but that's almost as much bollocks as Orwell's "Politics and the English language".
Twain says: "An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice." ... using 3 adjectives. Unless he's trying to be ironic and I'm missing the point. However, I too am a writer and editor (40,000+ books sold to date )

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Chugged, like an asthmatic steam train.

You've seen me.cycling haven't you.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Jammed.
Crinkled.
Tore.

Bloody printers.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

Does it work as a TMN if I was thinking it from post one. A brilliant film.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

How about: the paper jiggered out of the printer.

Or Thrutched

Or it willomied to the floor, fluttering like and uncoordinated hummingbird

 

[Fnaar]

MW

?? Merriam-Webster??

 

[Markymark]

Around 300,000 sheets of paper a month comes out of my printers in my business. The sound it makes to me is 'kerching'

 

[vernon]

?? Merriam-Webster??

Mark 'wain.

 

[sight-pin]

Shivered? 'The printer gave a cough, 'shivered'.....and hey presto! it's run out of ink