I understand QuiltE's definition of a flimsie and can agree with it in the literal sense, but I have to confess that my first thought was of the thin, crinkly, "onion-skin" paper used with carbon paper when we had multiple copies of documents typed (oh, the hours spent erasing errors on each one!). In the law firm in which I worked back then, the copies were called flimsies. Typed, you say ... erased, you ask .... ohhhhh, you must mean keyboarding and hitting the delete key, of course! :-)