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When I was learning to work in HP Laserjet IIP and IIIE (and 4SI) printers (I'm old...) I was taught that those little circlips that hold things were called "je
by geocrasher 3y ago
When I was learning to work in HP Laserjet IIP and IIIE (and 4SI) printers (I'm old...) I was taught that those little circlips that hold things were called "jesus clips" because they fly off into the nothing, never to be seen again, and the guy working on it usually yells out "JESUS!" in frustration.
But the helicopter thing makes sense too.
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