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• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....
• We had time taken away from us, and now it's been given back to us because it's running out.
  -- Barbara, EDGE OF DESTRUCTION...
• 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....
• He who hesitates is miles away from the next freeway exit.
• hosed adj. Same as down. Used primarily by Unix hackers.
  Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....
• hosed: adj. Same as {down}. Used primarily by UNIX hackers.
  Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....
• There's one that hasn't been cancelled because of the Arctic conditions - it's been cancelled because of a frozen pitch.
• From the April 9, 1990, London (Ontario, Canada) Free Pre
  A suspect in Friday's armed robbery of a CIBC bank branch in London was still free late Sunday after bluffing his way out of the city police holding cells, posing as someone being held on a drunk charge....
• blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n. [common] Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, esp.
  a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this term usually refers to status lights on a modem, network hub, or the like....