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Absentee, n.:
A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove
himself from the sphere of exaction.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Abstainer, n.:
A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a
pleasure.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Absurdity, n.:
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Academy:
A modern school where football is taught.
Institute:
An archaic school where football is not taught.
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Acceptance testing:
An unsuccessful attempt to find bugs.
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Accident, n.:
A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
body is better.
-- Foolish Dictionary
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Accordion, n.:
A bagpipe with pleats.
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Accuracy, n.:
The vice of being right
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Acquaintance, n:
A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well
enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when the
object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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ADA:
Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in
Computing. Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop
an ADA awareness.
-- "Datamation", January 15, 1984
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