Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!mathnews From: mathnews@watdcsu.UUCP (mathNEWS) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Re: More about holey paper... Message-ID: <1718@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 10:34:54 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1718 Posted: Thu Oct 3 10:34:54 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:29:42 EDT References: <1106@rayssd.UUCP> Reply-To: mathnews@watdcsu.UUCP (mathNEWS) Distribution: na Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 Summary: >>> The people at the National Public Radio program "All Things >>> Considered" held a contest not long ago. They asked their >>> listeners to come up with a new word, a name for those paper >>> strips - the ones with the holes in them - that are pulled off >>> the sides of continuous-feed computer paper. >>> The winner was perfory, >>> But some of us preferred one of the >>> runners-up: chit. > >>Personally, I've always liked the name 'Euripides' for that stuff. At UW we call the thin perforated holey strips "tweeter", and the wider perforated unholey stuff from the right hand side of 15" paper "woofer". (Woofer makes an excellent note pad.) Both of these words are suitably onomatapoetic for our liking here. -- "May your Coke always be Classic." mathNEWS--the math student newspaper at the University of Waterloo {allegra|clyde|linus|ihnp4|decvax}!watmath!watdcsu!mathnews UUCP mathnews%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet CSNET mathnews@watdcsu NETNORTH