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  The way it works is, there are are two soldiers on the screen, and when you put in a quarter, it never gets to them....
• demo mode n. 1. [Sun] The state of being heads down in order to finish code in time for a demo, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• go flatline v. [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival `flatlined').
  1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly....
• go flatline: [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] vi.
  also adjectival `flatlined'. 1. To {die}, terminate, or fail, esp....
• If you hit two keys on the keyboard, the one you don't want will get to the screen first.
• Lisa: Look, we got a package from the Mr. Sparkle company in Japan.
  Homer: Ooh! [opens package, but only Styrofoam packing peanuts spill out....
• You could be playing a video game instead.
• Eternal Vigilance Is The Price of Liberty" used to mean we watched the government - not the other way around.
  -- Bill Stewa...