dead tree
n.— «You sure aint gonna get a lot from just this small excerpt of The Book. I suggest, and it’d be in your slack-gaining ways’ best interest, to spend ANOTHER $$ on the dead tree edition. It’s slightly more verbose.» —“Re: The Book online?” by Brent Burton Usenet: alt.slack Sept. 19, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Scientists have named some recently discovered species of tree frogs after characters from Star Trek. Why? Because of the boops and trills and other sounds that these frogs make. And: naming your children with the virtues you hope they’ll...
In ancient Rome, kids played games with nuts — specifically walnuts. In a Latin poem from that era, “Nux,” a walnut tree describes some of those games. Nux is Latin for “nut,” the source also of nucleus, or “kernel of a...