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:As a fellow Brit, I share your pain at these revolting colonials mangling our mother tongue.  Why not just call it "narrow ruled" like us? [[User:Kev|Kev]] ([[User talk:Kev|talk]]) 19:23, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 
:As a fellow Brit, I share your pain at these revolting colonials mangling our mother tongue.  Why not just call it "narrow ruled" like us? [[User:Kev|Kev]] ([[User talk:Kev|talk]]) 19:23, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 
::As an American, I can say that the reason that medium (or "college") ruled paper is not known as "narrow ruled" is because they are two different things. College ruled paper had lines spaced 9/32" (~7.1 mm) apart. Narrow ruled paper has those lines only 1/4" (6.35 mm) apart. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.35.70|172.70.35.70]] 19:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 
::As an American, I can say that the reason that medium (or "college") ruled paper is not known as "narrow ruled" is because they are two different things. College ruled paper had lines spaced 9/32" (~7.1 mm) apart. Narrow ruled paper has those lines only 1/4" (6.35 mm) apart. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.35.70|172.70.35.70]] 19:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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I thought the joke in the title text was that while COVID-19 infects nearby people, COVID+19 does the opposite, uninfecting people. If it annihilates COVID-19 like antimatter, that will release enormous amounts of energy, likely destroying the people involved. If you're disintegrated, it's of little help that you've been "cured". [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 20:41, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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As a Brit, I had to go away look up College Ruled, which I thought might be more exotic than it actually turns out to be, but a nice set on the whole. Someone is doubtless on top of the Explanation editing already (despite being unusually early, on the clock, as published!) so I'll let them have the fun. 172.70.90.71 16:59, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

As a fellow Brit, I share your pain at these revolting colonials mangling our mother tongue. Why not just call it "narrow ruled" like us? Kev (talk) 19:23, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
As an American, I can say that the reason that medium (or "college") ruled paper is not known as "narrow ruled" is because they are two different things. College ruled paper had lines spaced 9/32" (~7.1 mm) apart. Narrow ruled paper has those lines only 1/4" (6.35 mm) apart. --172.70.35.70 19:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

I thought the joke in the title text was that while COVID-19 infects nearby people, COVID+19 does the opposite, uninfecting people. If it annihilates COVID-19 like antimatter, that will release enormous amounts of energy, likely destroying the people involved. If you're disintegrated, it's of little help that you've been "cured". Barmar (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2021 (UTC)