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Paper Cricket 

A new display push pin for displaying artwork and other pieces on walls and other surfaces. With a slit/wing to hold the paper, you do not have to puncture or damage your works when putting them up.
John: "Dude how'd you put your picture up without poking it?"
Bob: "I used a paper cricket. Those thumbtacks don't work as well as these push pins."
Paper Cricket by Modica4uall May 22, 2011
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paper cricket 

A new push pin that has a clip, which allows for papers to be slipped into without puncturing or damaging the piece. Good for artists, students, businessmen, and teachers.
John: "You have any tacks I can borrow?"
George: "I got paper crickets you can use."
paper cricket by Modica4uall May 30, 2011

Mater tua criceta fuit, -et pater tuo redoluit bacarum Sambucus 

Latin for "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries". (A quote from Monty Python's Holy Grail.)
Mater tua criceta fuit, -et pater tuo redoluit bacarum Sambucus!
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