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Benjamin Franklin's coffin 

The little tray that your put your payment in at an expensive restaurant. So-called because Benjamin Franklin's image is on the US $100 bill, and once you put him in that tray, you're not going to see him again.
Once the waiter brought Benjamin Franklin's coffin out, I laid Benjamin to rest and I knew I wasn't going to see him again.

rotating rust 

A dysphemism for a hard disk drive, which historically consisted of a rotating platter of iron oxide (modern hard drives may use other materials).
Rotating rust has much higher latency than SSDs.
rotating rust by twixsmoker October 20, 2016