Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!mpc From: mpc@rayssd.UUCP (Manny P. Costa) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: More about holey paper... Message-ID: <1104@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 13:24:32 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.1104 Posted: Wed Oct 2 13:24:32 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:13:40 EDT References: <397@tekred.UUCP> Sender: mpc@rayssd.UUCP (Manny P. Costa @ Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI) Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 13 > 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. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com