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From: mathnews@watdcsu.UUCP (mathNEWS)
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Subject: Re: Re: More about holey paper...
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 10:34:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 10:34:54 1985
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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.

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