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Cynic, n.:
One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced eye.
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Data, n.:
An accrual of straws on the backs of theories.
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Data, n.:
Computerspeak for "information". Properly pronounced
the way Bostonians pronounce the word for a female child.
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Davis' Law of Traffic Density:
The density of rush-hour traffic is directly proportional to
1.5 times the amount of extra time you allow to arrive on time.
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Davis's Dictum:
Problems that go away by themselves, come back by themselves.
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Dawn, n.:
The time when men of reason go to bed.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Deadwood, n.:
Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are.
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Death wish, n.:
The only wish that always comes true, whether or not one wishes it to.
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Decision maker, n.:
The person in your office who was unable to form a task force
before the music stopped.
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default, n.:
[Possibly from Black English "De fault wid dis system is you,
mon."] The vain attempt to avoid errors by inactivity. "Nothing will
come of nothing: speak again." -- King Lear.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"
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