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• SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
  Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read _them_....
• The captain. He's a real son of the sea. He first became interested in ships when his mother approached him.
  John, your father wants you to build a boat at once," she said....
• Richard, in being so fierce toward my vampire, you were doing what you wanted to do, even though you thought it was going to hurt somebody else.
  He even told you he'd be hurt if..." "He was going to suck my blood!...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• When a man pulled two guns on convenience store clerk Wazir Jiwi and demanded money, Jiwi asked how much he wanted for one of the guns.
  He said $100, which Jiwi paid him. Then Jiwi offered to buy the second gun....
• The young man-about-town enjoyed luxury but didn't always have the means to buy i
  and so he huffily walked out of the Miami Beach hotel when he found out the charges for room, meals and golf privileges were $...
• 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....
• In the Plaza Hotel once, when I was doing the quiz show, there was a priest in the elevator.
  I hope you're not offended by this--I'd tell a story about a rabbi but it doesn't fit, and neither did the rabbi and they finally threw him out of the synagogue....
• Marge: Homey, are you really going to ignore Grampa for the rest of your life.
  Homer: Of course not, Marge, just for the rest of his life....