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>Dick Margulis wrote:
>>Dori Green wrote:
>>>Al Geist wrote:
>
>>>In Alaska, we called our copier "Harvey,"
>
>>Back in the day when I had to use two typewriters so that we could
>>maintain a convention of having a different font for page headings -- yes,
>>pre-Selectric -- they quickly became "George" and "Irving". Maybe it's a
>>TW thang.
>
>In UNIX environments where I've worked, sysadmins assigned fanciful names
>to all network nodes, including printers (Al, was your copier also a
>network printer?). One guy used the names of Finger Lakes wineries--except
>for Inga, which was named for a Swedish masseuse he met on a cruise.
All good and well, but I cannot name my printer and imaginary rabbit friend
Harvey:
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