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• And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. -- Old Testament -- Genesis vii, 12
• connector conspiracy n. [probably came into prominence with the appearance of the KL-10 (one model of the PDP-10)
  one of whose connectors matched anything else] The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, programmers or purveyors of anything) to come up with new products that don't fit together with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices....
• Come on, you'll be late for school." "Shan't," came the reply from the bathroom.
  "Why, what's wrong?" "The teachers hate me and the kids despise me....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. -- Clive Jame
• I want FORTY-TWO TRYNEL FLOATATION SYSTEMS installed within SIX AND A HALF HOURS!
  !! -- Zippy the Pinhead...
• The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is forty-two.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone, Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you, I went out this morning and I wrote down this song, Just can't remember who to send it to.
  .. Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain, I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end, I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, But I always thought that I'd see you again....
• 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....