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• A policy is a restrictive document to prevent a recurrence of a single incident, in which that incident is never mentioned.
  -- Kaufman's Law...
• Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
  "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time....
• Sulu: "An 'incident'?!" -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6
• CONSENT DECREE: A document in which a hapless company consents never to commit in the future whatever heinous violations of Federal law it never admitted to in the first place.
• I never forgot the incident and years later, when the Luftwaffe was bombing London, I shone a light on the critic's house.
  -- Woody Alle...
• Scientific American, July 1991: The column describes an insect-like robot and then relates an incident in which a curious visitor, upon seeing the thing for the first time, asks "is it a bug?
  The reply: No, it's a feature....
• Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.
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• This is an unprecedented incident but we do know it has happened before.
• ardegy n. [deliberate mangling of `tragedy'] An incident in which someone who clearly deserves to be selected out of the gene pool on grounds of extreme stupidity meets with a messy end.
  Coined on the Darwin list, which is dedicated to chronicling such incide...