# How would \*you\* use Peon Tablets?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-peon-tablets/129303 "2002-09-23T17:29:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-peon-tablets/129303/21 "2002-10-20T00:49:43Z")

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In the lab, Reptilase is the brand name for a product derived from snake venom. We use it in coagulation testing. Wonder what theirs is?

And I usually feel like a peon, so maybe I could use those tablets…

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**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-use-peon-tablets/129303/22 "2002-10-20T10:53:26Z")

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Well, on IRC, a peon is someone with no special channel operator privileges. And a tablet sounds like a kind of small table. So at Thanksgiving dinner, all the operators eat at the Grownup Table, and the peons eat at the Peon Tablet.

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