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| #4288 | | mixed emotions:
Watching a bus-load of lawyers plunge off a cliff.
With five empty seats.
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| #4289 | | mixed emotions:
Watching your mother-in-law back off a cliff...
in your brand new Mercedes.
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| #4290 | | modem, adj.:
Up-to-date, new-fangled, as in "Thoroughly Modem Millie." An
unfortunate byproduct of kerning.
[That's sic!]
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| #4291 | | modesty, n.:
Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.
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| #4292 | | Modesty:
The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be
aware of it.
-- Oliver Herford
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| #4293 | | Molecule, n.:
The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished
from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a
closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of
matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the
atom in that it is an ion ...
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #4294 | | Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis:
If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented
it wasn't worth doing.
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| #4295 | | momentum, n.:
What you give a person when they are going away.
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| #4296 | | Moon, n.:
1. A celestial object whose phase is very important to hackers. See
PHASE OF THE MOON. 2. Dave Moon (MOON@MC).
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| #4297 | | Moore's Constant:
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody
does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
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