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26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
19:33
On Friday 26 November 2004 12:11 pm, James Knott wrote:
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Friday 26 November 2004 9:12 am, Andrew Betts wrote:
Out of curiosity... what is a 'stiffy' ?
(storage, jargon) stiffy - (University of Lowell, Massachusetts) A 3.5-inch microfloppy, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the (obsolete) 8-inch floppy disk. Elsewhere this might be called a "firmy".
If that's the way people talk, in Massachusetts, it's no wonder John Kerry lost. No one could understand him.
Must be something in the beans. ;-)
In Greater Chicago goloshes were ALWAYS called RubberZ even when you meant just one. PeterB