Damn right my weights and measurements are remaining secret!
AHem, I mean - “what Mangetout said”
A Royale with cheese.
OK, I give; what is this referencing? Monty Python? Southpark? What?
Pulp Fiction…discussion of the quarter pounder in France, which is metric.
For real effect (and a broken nose), you could try “Do you have a three and an half inch stiffy?”.
… so you’re saying an 8" stiffy is hard to come by?
That '8 inches ’ is a floppy measurement; I think this would be quite memorable as a stiffy.
I’m in the US, and I’ve heard them called “stiffies” before, but that was back in the days when your spankin new 386 had a stiffy and a floppy drive. Haven’t heard the term lately. While I salute your efforts to re-popularize the term, I’m afraid it may have already peaked.
And by all means, please don’t restrict your juvenile humor to mere diskettes. There are plenty of other jokes to be made about computer hardware, the most obvious target of course being mouse balls (where’s that old mouse ball memo at…).
Don’t forget the ad campaign for Zip drives when they first came out:
"Firm up your Floppy!"
Back when I taught Computer Literacy (pardon me while I shudder), so many students insisted on calling a 3.5" floppy a “hard disk” that I took action: On the first day of class, I would take a 3.5" floppy, rip it apart (taking care that the little spring didn’t fly off), and show them that the disk really was floppy. Any questions?
I’ve got the vagueset of recollections of the ‘microdisk’ one - possible from the days of the BBC Micro.