Unplugging L2 Charger After Remote Start

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Having not heard this word in years—several generations ago— I just had to look up it’s origins. Useless trivia but thought I’d share. Don’t mean to get off topic. You all are making unplugging a charger into a very interesting topic, btw.


“The earliest example we’ve found for “coinkydink” (often spelled and pronounced “kawinkydink”) is from the June 1952 issue of Trolley Topics, a publication of the San Francisco Municipal Railway. The term appears in an “Office News” item about trolley employees:

“Just after bowling his massive 696 series in the Association sweepstakes, Jimmy ‘The Arm’ Dickinson reached into his wallet for a look at a raffle ticket that he holds. Lo and behold, the number it bore was 696 also! A charming ‘coinkydink,’ as Jim Pagee says.”

The Random House Dictionary of American Slang describes “coinkydink” as an “intentional malapropism” used jocularly to mean a coincidence. (A malapropism, as we wrote on the blog in 2007, is an unintentionally comic misuse of a word.)”
Thank you, Susan. This is one of those rare times when a trolley's been mentioned on the forum without it being a "problem."
 
 







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