Freebsd Fortunes 3: 1995 of 2182 |
GUILLOTINE:
A French chopping center.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 1996 of 2182 |
Gumperson's Law:
The probability of a given event
occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 1997 of 2182 |
Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 1998 of 2182 |
Gunter's Airborne Discoveries:
(1) When you are served a meal aboard an aircraft,
the aircraft will encounter turbulence.
(2) The strength of the turbulence
is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 1999 of 2182 |
GURMLISH:
The red warning flag at the top of a club sandwich which prevents
the person from biting into it and puncturing the roof of his mouth.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 2000 of 2182 |
gurmlish, n.:
The red warning flag at the top of a club sandwich which
prevents the person from biting into it and puncturing the roof
of his mouth.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 2001 of 2182 |
GURU:
A person in T-shirt and sandals who took an elevator ride with
a senior vice-president and is ultimately responsible for the
phone call you are about to receive from your boss.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 2002 of 2182 |
guru, n:
A computer owner who can read the manual.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 2003 of 2182 |
gy-ro-scope:
A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also
free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to
each other and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the
two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of
torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the
entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on
the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction
of the axis of spin.
-- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 2004 of 2182 |
hacker, n:
Originally, any person with a knack for coercing stubborn inanimate
things; hence, a person with a happy knack, later contracted by the mythical
philosopher Frisbee Frobenius to the common usage, 'hack'.
In olden times, upon completion of some particularly atrocious body
of coding that happened to work well, culpable programmers would gather in
a small circle around a first edition of Knuth's Best Volume I by candlelight,
and proceed to get very drunk while sporadically rending the following ditty:
Hacker's Fight Song
He's a Hack! He's a Hack!
He's a guy with the happy knack!
Never bungles, never shirks,
Always gets his stuff to work!
All take a drink (important!)
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