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What is the name of the.....

  • 16-09-2005 1:21pm
    #1
    iceman_2001_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭


    ... tiny little discs of paper that you make when you use a paper punch?

    I know they have a name, because I heard a guy working in a printers office complaining about them sticking to the carpet.

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    I think in the US elections when they use a puncher for the votes, the little bits of paper are referred to as "Chads"?


  • #3
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    eoin_s wrote:
    I think in the US elections when they use a puncher for the votes, the little bits of paper are referred to as "Chads"?
    Yeh, ive heard that word 'chads' used before... i usually just refer to them as the mess


  • #4
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    confetti?


  • #5
    20 Times 20 Times
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    simu wrote:
    confetti?


    Aye very good answer so when your going to a wedding you get the paper punch out for the home made stuff :)


  • #6
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,989 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Paper.


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  • #7
    Blisterman
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    I think it's called chad, in the singular. As in "There's chad all over the floor"

    I read it in a list of things you didn't know the name of.


  • #8
    iceman_2001_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭iceman_2001_ie


    Excellent

    Cheers :D


  • #9
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Blisterman wrote:
    As in "There's chad all over the floor"
    If someone said that to me I'd assume that some guy named Chad was suffering from a particularly bad hangover.


  • #10
    Ann Elk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭Ann Elk


    It could be called a 'Didcot' - from Douglas Adams' "The Meaning Of Liff" - what a brilliant collection of words - check the Link. One night he decided to take a load of place names which he elt had no meaning and apply them to various everyday occurrences, for which no words exist - genius!!

    DIDCOT (n.)

    The tiny oddly-shaped bit of card which a ticket inspector cuts out of a ticket with his clipper for no apparent reason. It is a little-known fact that the confetti at Princess Margaret's wedding was made up of thousands of didcots collected by inspectors on the Royal Train

    http://lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt_with-big-pictures.html :D


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