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AdamSmith

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  1. Sort of an all-purpose epithet.
  2. AFTER disconnecting the current supply! http://t05.deviantart.net/dQG3M_8GXtE8AaowlAS3sD7Xldk=/300x200/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre15/415b/th/pre/f/2012/029/5/a/homer_electrocuted_by_brazilianferalcat-d4nzaw9.jpg
  3. Remember...
  4. Let us spray. http://klugworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/VCSP.004-250x190.png
  5. http://readeroffictions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/gif-they-do-say-theres-a-wild-man-inside-all-of-us.gif ...Dowager Countess: "If only he would stay inside!"
  6. Now I must dig out a parody I started writing in high school... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/john_milton.jpg Asparagus Lost
  7. Synesthesia!
  8. http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-05-2015/aAFoow.gif
  9. Of course the one on the left could also contain a surge suppressor.
  10. (Rather than start a new thread, I thought we might continue the pleasant free association in this one.) Here's a rather (I think) fascinating snapshot of how Gartner's technology Hype Cycle chart has evolved over the past four years...
  11. http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sites/bfi.org.uk.films-tv-people/files/styles/gallery_full/public/bfi_stills/bfi-00n-00i.jpg?itok=pghGPYmr
  12. P.S. This reminds of a crack that Clarke made somewhere that pretty obviously refers to his hiring rent boys. Quoting from memory: To write 2001, "I checked into the Chelsea Hotel, where I spent many lonely (well, fairly lonely) evenings in the service of art and Stanley."
  13. I started to write "AWS" but thought it might be obscure for some. Shall we debate whether a proper noun made of several words is in some sense also "one word"?
  14. "I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., 'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.' In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive." -- Clarke, "Appendix II: MITE for Morons,"The Odyssey File (1984), p. 123
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