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Bubble Memory, n.:
A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence.
See also "vacuum tube".
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Bucy's Law:
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Bug, n.:
An aspect of a computer program which exists because the
programmer was thinking about Jumbo Jacks or stock options when s/he
wrote the program.
Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.
-- Ray Simard
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bug, n:
A son of a glitch.
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bug, n:
An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect.
The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends
when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed.
-- "Datamation", January 15, 1984
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| Linux Definitions: 142 of 1105 |
Bugs, pl. n.:
Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.
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Bumper sticker:
All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest
British manufacture.
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| Linux Definitions: 144 of 1105 |
Bunker's Admonition:
You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it.
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Burbulation:
The obsessive act of opening and closing a refrigerator door in
an attempt to catch it before the automatic light comes on.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
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Bureau Termination, Law of:
When a government bureau is scheduled to be phased out,
the number of employees in that bureau will double within
12 months after the decision is made.
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