# The metal rod with the springy thingy inside that holds the toilet paper

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**Created:** [May 7, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-metal-rod-with-the-springy-thingy-inside-that-holds-the-toilet-paper/581103 "2011-05-07T23:49:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-metal-rod-with-the-springy-thingy-inside-that-holds-the-toilet-paper/581103/21 "2011-05-09T09:00:52Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> My late brother, a systems analyst, said to me about 20 years ago, “I don’t know what language engineers will be using in 50 years, but I know what it will be called.”

It will be called COBOL.  
At least, that was the original answer in that quotation.

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