44-28csh@braggvax.arpa (03/30/87)
What is the tractor fed portion of continous fed paper called?? (The part
you tear off and feed the hamsters!)
The Mystic..
|Michael Guido|44-28csh@braggvax|1-919-396-4935, AV:236|zellich@ALMSA-1.arpa (03/31/87)
"perf strips"
44-28csh@braggvax.arpa (03/31/87)
Somebody or other (it might have been a National Public Radio commentator) had a contest to think up such a name about a year ago, and the winning entry was "perfory". The best place to as that question would have been the talk.bizarre newsgrouop. The second best would have been info-unix, not unix-wizards. SWA ------- Thanks for helping a novice... The Mystic |Michael Guido|44-28csh@braggvax|
rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (04/01/87)
Chit - Because the namer's boss (who was hispanic) always told the employees to "tear that chit off". -- Bob Tomlinson -- tomlin@hc.dspo.gov -- (505) 667-8495 Los Alamos National Laboratory -- MEE-10/Data Systems That correlates well with `chad', supposedly what the little punched out holes from paper tape are called. (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
brian@asci.UUCP (04/01/87)
in article <6428@brl-adm.ARPA>, 44-28csh@braggvax.arpa says: > > What is the tractor fed portion of continous fed paper called?? (The part > you tear off and feed the hamsters!) I always called it "perf". Brian Douglass brian@asci.UUCP
dalj@utgpu.UUCP (04/07/87)
Summary The edge of the paper is the selvage References: <6428@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: dalj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (David Lloyd-Jones) Followup-To: error in New York Times threatens to spread on the net. Keywords: "perfory" selvage In article <6428@brl-adm.ARPA> 44-28csh@braggvax.arpa writes: >What is the tractor fed portion of continous fed paper called?? (The part >you tear off and feed the hamsters!) > >The Mystic.. > >|Michael Guido|44-28csh@braggvax|1-919-396-4935, AV:236| According to Safire's column in the Sunday New York Times some twit has held a competition to dream up a neoterism, and the winner was "perfory". Of course it is obvious that the correct term is selvage -- used for hundreds of years in the cloth trades and for several generations by wallpaper makers to desribe the edge you tear off the roll. Cheers, -dlj.
faknabe@phoenix.UUCP (04/07/87)
In article <135@asci.UUCP< brian@asci.UUCP (BRIAN DOUGLASS) writes:
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<I always called it "perf".
National Public Radio's Morning Edition (or perhaps Weekend Edition)
was so intrigued by this question that they had a contest for the
best name.
The winner was "perfory."