BeeCee, I'm having a cup of decaf as I write this...

 

Here's the original ad for "jiffy stand" from H-D.

 

And this from an early catalog:

 

I think she gave it to my wife, I'm always catching it.

 

Two girls, one cup?

 

Well the true story is, and this isn't published too often. A motorcycle cop was attending to a call about a hit and run. It was a little ol lady that was carrying a bag of groceries across the street. Well, a guy hit her and sped away, scattering her groceries all over the place. The cop arrived and in his haste to park his bike he put the side stand down onto a smashed jar of Jiffy Peanut butter. From then on it has been known as the Jiffy stand. True story.

 

The stuff you can learn here. WoW! Amazing. And to think, without Al Gore, none of this would be possible without him inventing the internet....

 

I think the thing people overlooked is that you're from Australia and maybe you don't use the word "jiffy" much there, but here it just means a very short time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_(time)

And the peanut butter is Jif, not Jiffy.

 

He must have been thinking of Jiffy Pop, the popcorn.

 

Jiffy,sounds a little swishy to me! I think I will go on calling it a kick stand,as I have for 50+ years!