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• NULL MODEM Another one of those things which sits around on your desk for months, but mysteriously vanishes the day before you need it.
  -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA...
• NEIGHBOUR One of those people you occasionally smile at when walking down the stree
  but rarely develop such a bond with that they are concerned when your burglar alarm goes off when you're on holiday....
• KENNEL A place where sleeping dogs lie, shelter from rain, and chew on dubious bones dug up from other people's garden.
  Toxic Custard advice of the week is: Never steal anything from a Rottweiler's kennel....
• AND NOW A WORD FROM THE PENTAGON To all those sissy wimps who don't want a war - remember what we're talking about here!
  What about all the oil we won't be able to pollute the atmosphere with if we don't liberate Kuwait?...
• INTERDIGIT Another one of those words that no-one of any importance ever uses.
  Probably devised by the same guy who thought up "recalcitrant"....
• NEWT One of those really small beasties that annoys little kids because they're too small to step on.
  I dunno though - if you were flying along and got caught in the downward air-draught of a descending foot, it'd do serious damage, wouldn't it?...
• GENERATION, OLDER The people that don't understand you. -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
• GENERATION, YOUNGER The people that you don't understand. -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
• HAIL Like rain, but harder. Meteorologists have conducted studies about the weather patterns relating to hail
  and the likely occurrence of it, and have concluded that it is most likely to hail when you are walking down the street without even an umbrella for protection....