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• gaseous: adj. Deserving of being {gas}sed. Disseminated by Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI
  became particularly popular after the Moscone-Milk killings in San Francisco, when it was learned that the defendant Dan White (a politician who had supported Proposition 7) would get the gas chamber under Proposition 7 if convicted of first-degree murder (he was eventually convicted of manslaughter)....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?
  whereupon Euclid called his slave and said "Give him three-pence since he must make gain out of what he knows....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• Many politicians ... are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
  The maxim is worthy of the fool who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim....
• Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
  very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• Homer: We're going to lose our house and end up living under a bridge like common trolls.
  Lisa: I don't think Bob won that election legally....
• andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
  weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.