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| #3681 | | 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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| #3682 | | Absurdity, n.:
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #3683 | | Academy:
A modern school where football is taught.
Institute:
An archaic school where football is not taught.
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| #3684 | | Acceptance testing:
An unsuccessful attempt to find bugs.
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| #3685 | | Accident, n.:
A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
body is better.
-- Foolish Dictionary
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| #3686 | | Accordion, n.:
A bagpipe with pleats.
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| #3687 | | Accuracy, n.:
The vice of being right
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| #3688 | | 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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| #3689 | | 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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| #3690 | | Adler's Distinction:
Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,
and from the bureaucrats.
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