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  "Twenty years ago Pine City established strict laws designed to limit the number of new buildings that could be constructed in the city....
• Simpson! Homer Simpson! He's the greatest guy in history.
  From the! Town of Springfield! He's about to hit a chestnut tree!...
• LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. 1. Line printer (originally Line Printing Terminal).
  Rare under Unix, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
• The new "I Love You" virus is not the work of some snot-nosed acne-laced teenager working from a basement in the Phillipines.
  It's actually part of a conspiracy concocted by the unholy alliance of Microsoft and several well-known and well-despised spammers....
• background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• chemist n. [Cambridge] Someone who wastes computer time on number-crunching when you'd far rather the machine were doing something more productive
  uch as working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running life patterns....
• pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
  To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....
• creen: "Fourth season"] [the theme from "The Flintstones" plays] [a man looks at his watch, and pulls a cord on a whistle] Home
  Yabba dabba doo! [slides down pipe, crashes through window into car] [singing] Simpson, Homer Simpson, He's the greatest guy in history!...