Torsoes and staplers

[ru]

At 5:45 this evening, I has happily writing along, trying to enjoy my last couple days of freedom best I can, when I casually glanced at the clock and realized it was 5:45. I thought to myself "Hm, wasn't there something I was supposed to do at 6? Oh CRAP. There WAS something I was supposed to do. I have to go to that bloody floor meeting!" So I had to hop in the car and go down to the uni to listen to the rules and regulations for the fourth(and last) time. But that wasn't the interesting thing. What was interesting was that on our way back home, we saw at an intersection that someone had dumped a large, white, plastic male torso next to a fire hydrant. Now why, mayst I ask, why someone would throw out a perfectly good plastic torso? There's so many things you could do with a plastic torso! Like...um...find a whole bunch of other plastic pieces and make a David statue? Start a very bizarre collage? Make fake armor? I dunno. What could you do with a plastic torso?

On a slightly different note, a thought I had several months ago resurfaced. When I was taking biochemistry last year, one of the things we had to do was attend a review session once a week. Our biochem professor usually supervised, so we got to see some of her peculiar mannerisms up close. One of them was how she didn't call staplers staplers. She called them something different. Hodgekis? Hodgekiss? Hodgekes? I'm not 100% sure how it would be spelled. dictionary.com didn't have anything to say on any of those spellings. So, I ask you lovelies. Have you ever heard of a stapler being called something that even remotely sounds like those words? Any idea where it came from? I'd kinda like to know. <3 <3

Comments

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, and I wouldn't have, but they always put "mandatory", and that always makes me worry that I'm gonna miss something important, so I should probably go anyway. It's just always a pain to go.

[foofasaurus.livejournal.com]

Google tells me that a guy named Hodgekiss invented some type of stapler and his name came to be associated with them. ^_^

(This came from a page tutoring people in Engrish, mind you.)

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

Hm! Engrish aside, that makes a lot of sense. I always thought it was such a bizarre thing to call a stapler. I didn't even know that's what she was talking about until she held up the stapler one day and asked if anyone needed the Hodgekiss, at which point I went, "Oh. OH. So THAT'S what it is. ...Why is she calling it a Hodgekiss?" Thanks! <3 <3