Tingle table

Tingle table
 n.— «Workers process the forms at something called Tingle tables, so named for Jim Tingle, an IRS employee who designed the tables back in the 1960s.» —“Due date to file U.S. taxes just around the corner” in Ogden, Utah CNN Mar. 29, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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