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• When you go to a bar, you know you can always pick up a Beer.
• marbles pl.n. [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions.
  After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch....
• marbles: [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] pl.
  . The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions....
• You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
• When you go to a beer, <hic> you can always pick up a bar <hic>.
• You can pick your friends, but not your relatives.
• Isn't there a pound where you can pick up cheap ponies that ran away from home?
  -- Homer shops for "Lisa's Pony...