I've Got A Stiffy
“I'm sure I won't be the only one of your South African subscribers to point out that, in this country, the 5 1/4 inch floppy is referred to as a 'floppy' and the 3½-inch floppy is referred to as a stiffy / stiffie. So, a new PC may be advertised as having, among other things, a 1.44 Meg stiffy drive.” [Conrad Baudin]
“I was interested in your comments about floppy disks and thought you would
be interested in the fact that here in South Africa (as far as I know, the
only place this happens) we call the 3.5 inch floppy a 'stiffy!' I am not
sure how this name came about, but it is in general use and I often have to
remind myself when chatting to people from other parts of the world that
they wouldn't know what I was talking about if I referred to floppies by
that name.” [Ken Garvie]
9 Comments
Anonymous
March 28th, 2002
at 10:39am
Yeah, this is sure true. I lived in South Africa for several years before moving to the states. Just thought I'd say something :)
Anonymous
March 28th, 2002
at 11:00am
Yeah…he said stiffy…huh huh
*slap* Shut up Bevis
Anonymous
March 28th, 2002
at 1:47pm
Well it makes sense to me. One is stiff comparably ;)
Anonymous
March 28th, 2002
at 5:55pm
So, you're telling me that when you yell out, “Hey! Anyone got a 3.5 inch stiffy?” that no one even cracks the slightest bit of a smile?
Weird. :-)
Anonymous
March 28th, 2002
at 9:05pm
that rocks! i'm going to start calling them stiffies, now. 8]
Anonymous
March 28th, 2002
at 9:08pm
So..can you say they took a floppy and made it into a stiffy? :)
Anonymous
March 29th, 2002
at 2:50pm
sometimes i get a stiffy when looking at images on the internet *dirty, DIRTY THOUGHTS*
dj dan from Scraton, PA is A POSER!!!
POSER!!!!
and a loser.
Anonymous
April 1st, 2002
at 10:45am
I just call them 'disks'.
“Don't worry, I'll have that stiffy in a giffy.”
dANIAL
December 7th, 2008
at 9:47am
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