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• Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion.
• opic drift n. Term used on GEnie, Usenet and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• Anyone who volunteers to meet you half way in a discussion or any form of disagreement also believes that they are currently standing right on the dividing line.
• emi-infinite n. See infinite.
• opic drift: n. Term used on GEnie, USENET and other electronic fora to describe the tendency of a {thread} to drift away from the original subject of discussion (and thu
  from the Subject header of the originating message), or the results of that tendency....
• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
  -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....
• forum n. [Usenet, GEnie, CI$; pl. `fora' or `forums'] Any discussion group accessible through a dial-in BBS
  a mailing list, or a newsgroup (see postings for all to read and discussion ensues....
• Huby (n.) A half-errection large enough to be a publicly embarassing bulge in the trousers, not large enough to be of any use to anybody.