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• I can't come to the phone now, so... Hey -- that's a nice phone you have there.
  Hey sugar, you call this number often? I bet you have answering machines bothering you all the time....
• Who can figure a species like that? Beep beep!
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  A number of multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version implemented for both Unix and VMS...
• lop n. 1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• lop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• pace-cadet keyboard n. A now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS.
  It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key...
• Zero-One-Infinity Rule prov. "Allow none of foo, one of foo, or any number of foo.
  A rule of thumb for software design, which instructs one to not place random limits on the number of instances of a given entity (such a...