The Web is great for the snippets of information that unexpectedly come your way. Today when browsing Sue Mosher's site,
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I learned that I own a slipstick. Which was news to me.
A slipstick is according to Sue a 1950's slang term for a slide rule.
I guess that some younger readers may need the term slide rule explained. A slide rule is an analogue device which has precision markings which can be used to make mathematical calculations. Digital calculators, I suspect, wiped out the market for slide rules almost overnight.
My slipstick, by the way, is a Faber Castell 57/89.
Posted by Andrew Watt at October 9, 2003 10:22 AM