I seem to have gotten overly serious responses.

Just being funny, guys. Or trying to.

As the official old fogey of Empeg (at the age of 31), I've grown immune to people taking the mick out of my vintage terminology. They still all look at me strangely when I refer to the thing in Pearl as a "winchester". (Another example of a locution which survived much longer in Acornland than elsewhere.)

Peter