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• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• pod n. [UK] 1. A lower form of life found on talker systems and MUDs.
  The spod has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net....
• 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....
• The following appeared in an editorial in the local newspaper of Workville.
  "Workers should be allowed to reduce their workload from 40 to 25 or even 20 hours per week because it is clear that people who work part-time instead of full-time have better health and improved morale....
• How's your new job at the factory? one guy asked another.
  I'm not going back there. Why not? For many reasons, he answered....
• burn-in period n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with marginal components before they get out the doo
  the theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the bathtub curve (see infant mortali using a computer is so intensely involved in his project that he forgets basic needs such as food, drink, sleep, etc....
• A gangster assembled an engineer, a chemist, and a physicist.
  He explained that he was entering a horse in a race the following week and the three assembled guys had the job of assuring that the gangster's horse would win....
• One promising concept that I came up with right away was that you could manufacture personal air bag
  hen get a law passed requiring that they be installed on congressmen to keep them from taking trips....