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• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence
  erving its purpose without obstructing the view. -- Sophia Lore...
• It was as bad as being up a creek in a barbed wire canoe. -- Oxymoro
• Hello, friend! You say things aren't going too well?
  You say you have a date with your favorite girl when it starts raining so hard you can't see?...
• Your son still sliding down the banisters?" "We wound barbed wire around them.
  "That stop him?" "No, but it sure slowed him up....
• Did you just crawl over some barbed wire, sir? No..
  .I just put my elbow in a blob of ice-cream. -- Baldrick and Edmund : Captain Cook...
• I walk 47 miles of barbed wire, I've got a cobra snake for a necktie.
  I've got a brand new house along the roadside, and it's made out of rattlesnake hide....
• No more mud, death, rats, bombs, shrapnel, whizz-bangs, barbed wire and those bloody awful songs that have the word 'Whoops' in them.
  -- Edmund : Private Plane...
• I could accept this openness, glasnost, perestroika, or whatever you want to call it if they did these thing
  abolish the one party system; open the Soviet frontier and allow Soviet people to travel freely...
• off the trolley adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually crash or abort.
  See glitch, bug, wedged. This term is much older than computing, and is (uncommon) slang elsewhere....