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Subject: Re: What's it called?
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Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 20:21:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 11 20:21:13 1983
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	Does anyone know what one should call the little strips of
	holey paper on the sides of computer forms?  I've ripped off
	thousands of the things but am a loss as to what to call them
	except "little strips of holey paper".  If someone would like
	to invent a name, please try to come up with an eight letter
	name with the letters in strict alphabetic order.

				Bill Brown
				cbosgd!cbosg!cwb

Lessee.  if you take the initial letters from each word in 
"Little Holey Strips On Sides Of Computer Forms" and arrange
them in lexicographic order, you get "cfhlooss", pronounced 
``sooflose''.  lets add it to our dictionary-- perhaps 100 years
from now, some particularly clever lexicographer will decide it 
is derived from ``Cthulhu's'', reasoning this more or less 
expresses the sentiment of anyone who has ever inadvertently 
ripped off a bit more than a little strip of holey paper.  

	god preserve us from what is cfhlooss,
	steve