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From: landauer@morocco.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
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Subject: Re: Perfory
Keywords: What to do with it ??
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Date: 5 Dec 89 01:54:06 GMT
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> >You know the perforations, or tractor feeds, from the sides of PC paper 
> >that get ripped off and needlessly thrown away ???

NPR ran a survey/contest on naming that stuff -- I believe that "perfory"
was the winner.

> A friend of mine just kept collecting hers, slowly rolling them into a little
> ball ...

What I used to do (before laserwriters were popular) is to roll the
stuff into a disk.  The fun part is that when the disk gets big enough
(about 6 inches in diameter), you poke out the center, hold the disk by
the edges, and then yank down on the poked-out center.   Then the stuff
streams out one strand at a time, each looking like a helix shooting
down out of the center of the disk.  (This worked best if you had long
printouts.) For small disks, you want to do this over your wastebasket
or fireplace (after this treatment, the stuff makes great tinder).  For
large disks, you want to find a convenient balcony (preferably directly
above a large, open dumpster) ...

	What, Sign this????

P.S. ... ever tried to microwave a lit cigarette?