We used to do the same thing in the UK in the early seventies, I thought
it
 was quite funny until it happened to me!!!

 We called the stuff 'chad'.

 Tony Knowles     [log in to unmask]
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 > From: Neil Harvey <[log in to unmask]>
 > To: [log in to unmask]
 > Subject: Re: "C" calling a COBOL subroutine ?
 > Date: Friday, 13 June, 1997 07:03
 >
 > Pardon the waste of bandwidth, but the discussion on punched cards
 > brought back nerd memories.
 > I started out life as an operator on a Burroughs B2500. It read cards,
 > and punched cards, merged tape masterfiles and details, and had 100MB
 > fixed disk.
 >
 > One of my fellow operators got married. We collected MILLIONS of punched
 > out rectangles, and used this as confetti. He got into trouble with the
 > minister for "littering" the church and grounds.
 >
 > FOUR YEARS LATER, he and his wife still kept finding small overpunches
 > around the house, in the car, in clothes etc.
 >
 > Nerdish, no?
 >
 > Regards
 >
 > Neil Harvey