Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watrose!cdshaw From: cdshaw@watrose.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: More about holey paper... Message-ID: <7605@watrose.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 16:50:28 EDT Article-I.D.: watrose.7605 Posted: Fri Oct 18 16:50:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Oct-85 06:24:59 EDT References: <397@tekred.UUCP> Reply-To: cdshaw@watrose.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 In article <397@tekred.UUCP> ronbe@tekred.UUCP (Little Guy) writes: >From "What Shall We Call It?" by Flora Johnson Skelly... > >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. I always liked "pinfeed". But what the hell do you call the stuff that you rip off the right side of wide paper to get 8 1/2 - by - 11 inch paper? Oh shit, now I have to think of a joke. Uuuhhh "We are sorry, but the brain cells you have dialled are no longer in service at this time. Please try again when you have graduated. This is a recording " Chris Shaw watmath!watrose!cdshaw or cdshaw@watmath University of Waterloo In doubt? Eat hot high-speed death -- the experts' choice in gastric vileness !