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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

821.0. "Jailhouse Vocabulary" by WMOIS::RAHILLY () Wed Aug 22 1990 17:05

I am fairly new to this conference figured I should put you all to the 
test...

	Someone in my office needs a word.

The word is for refering to a convict's number.  (The one they hold under 
their chin when their picture is taken.)

Something like...  convict badge number?
		   record?

I know there has to be a particular word that I just can't remember.
Suggestions?	   

-ken
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821.1VISA::BIJAOUIReal problems are in BeirutWed Aug 22 1990 17:344
    'matricule' is the french word. 'registration number' is the
    translation given by my Harrap's Mini.
    
    Pierre.
821.2TKOV51::DIAMONDThis note is illegal tender.Thu Aug 23 1990 02:462
    I thought it was serial number.  (Proving that every computer we
    sell is convicted.)
821.3vague recollectionSTAR::CANTORDiginymic name: D2E C0.Thu Aug 23 1990 05:405
I think I remember hearing that it is 'handle'.  I'm reasonably certain
that 'handle' was used in various contexts to mean what a person is
known by other than his/her real name, long before CB and BBSes.

Dave C.
821.4just a little before :)TLE::RANDALLliving on another planetThu Aug 23 1990 15:496
    re: .3
    
    Yes, handle has been used in that sense since at least the
    restoration (it's used in one of Ford's plays).
    
    --bonnie
821.5bird word?XANADU::RECKARDJon Reckard, 381-0878, ZKO3-2/T63Thu Aug 23 1990 18:490
821.6SSDEVO::EGGERSAnybody can fly with an engine.Fri Aug 24 1990 21:287
    My sister worked in the maximum security prison in Canon City,
    Colorado.  She says the term for the perps (perpetrators) number is
    simply "number".

    The term she found oddest was "attitude", as in, "He has an attitude."
    As used in the big house, it means "bad attitude";  a "good attitude"
    is an oxymoron.
821.7TERZA::ZANEshadow jugglerMon Aug 27 1990 19:266
   In California, it's not even an "attitude" anymore, it's a "'tude."


   								Terza