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• High Voltage Electronics--life's a glitch, and then you fry.
• ice n. [coined by Usenetter Tom Maddox, popularized by William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel
  a contrived acronym for `Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics'] Security software (in Gibson's novels, software that responds to intrusion by attempting to immobilize or even literally kill the intruder)....
• Failed Attempts To Break Records In September 1978 Mr.
  Terry Gripton, of Stafford, failed to break the world shouting record by two and a half decibels....
• The following appeared in a memorandum written by the vice president of Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products.
  "Previous experience has shown that our stores are most profitable in areas where residents are highly concerned with leading healthy lives....
• But then again, Holland is a country where you buy your marihuana at a coffee-shop, your porn mags & video's at a petrol-station and hamburgers at an electronics store, so whadja want?
  -- Ralph 'Hairy' Moonen, AT&T, Holland(?)...
• The following appeared in the annual report of a chain of stores that sell supplies for do-it-yourself home improvements.
  "Current reports indicate that sales of new homes nationwide declined by 9 percent during the past year, while sales of existing homes increased by 16 percent....
• era n. Syn. epoch. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymou
  but `era' more often connotes a span of time rather than a point in time, whereas the reverse is true for epoch....
• Fry: "You know what I like best about you, Umbrielle?
  You find me fascinating, even when I'm not claiming to be a jewel thief or a lion tamer....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....