Speaking of such terminology, I have a true story for you.
A friend of mine had a scholarship to do research at the Library of Congress. To gather all of the books, journals, films, letters, government records etc., he had to go all over that huge library, get all he could carry, and take it back his desk. He was spending too much time fetching and carrying. To make the job go faster, he asked the scholarship agency to buy him a little red wagon to carry everything in. They refused. So as a joke, he got an official requisition form and applied for "a small displacement mobile retrieval and transportation device," and they approved it.