Re: FN-FORUM: Cleaning spills from laptop keyboard

date posted 6th February 2008 12:10


On 6 Feb 2008, at 13:16, Ben Johnson (Neogic) F wrote:

> fritz

fritz - noun - (in phrase go or be on the fritz) informal(of a
machine) stop working properly.

ORIGIN early 20th cent.: said to be a use of Fritz, with allusion to
cheap German imports into the U.S.before World War I.