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• Yeager's Law: Washing machines only break down during the wash cycle.
  Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off....
• Second Law of Office Murphology: Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.
• When a computer is most needed it will break down. -- Murphy's Tenth Law of Programming
• I wash everything on the gentle cycle. It's much more humane.
• cycle drought n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
  The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory....
• cycle drought: n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a {cycle crunch}, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
  "The {high moby} is {down}, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory....
• Only dirty people need to wash.
• Asynch: A place to wash dishes. Bisynch: Farewell to the dish washing place.
  -- Data communications glossary...