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• Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
  -- Johnson, Definition Dictionary...
• Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread
  it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base grain....
• Which supports a theory I've been formulating. -- Spock
• Blue Glue: [IBM] n. IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly {losing} and {bletcherous} communications protocol widely favored at commercial shops that don't know any better.
  The official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together....
• gronked: adj. 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down.
  2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick....
• At the dissolution He hurries to that which supports him. Remorse disappears.
• Kilt, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are.
  It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling....
• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
  -- Dr. Johnso...