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• The following appeared in a health newsletter. "A ten-year nationwide study of the effectiveness of wearing a helmet while bicycling indicates that ten years ago
  approximately 35 percent of all bicyclists reported wearing helmets, whereas today that number is nearly 80 percent....
• flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1.
  vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke....
• evil and rude adj. Both evil and rude, but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence.
  Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad desig...
• The following appeared in a magazine for the trucking industry.
  "The Longhaul trucking company was concerned that its annual accident rate (the number of accidents per mile driven) was too high....
• The following appeared as an editorial in the local newspaper of Dalton.
  "When the neighboring town of Williamsville adopted a curfew four months ago that made it illegal for persons under the age of 18 to loiter or idle in public places after 10 p....
• evil and rude: adj. Both {evil} and {rude}, but with the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather than incompetence.
  Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad desig...
• When you call home and get a busy signal, at least you are aware of where one of your children is at the time.
• What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall.
  Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of while he showers....
• My ritual differs slightly. What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall.
  Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of while he showers....