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  These are raised to the _nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays....
• PUT DOWN ROOTS -- what masseuses do when the massage parlor's raided.
• Well, he didn't know what to do, so he decided to look at the government, to see what they did, and scale it down and run his life that way.
  -- Laurie Anderso...
• I managed to say, "Sorry," and no more. I knew that he disliked me to cry.
  This time he said, watching me, "On some occasions it is better to weep....
• Picard: "Has Mister Barclay done anything that could be considered.
  ..potentially threatening?" Troi: "Well, he did make a pass at me last night....
• This one is for all you military types. For those who don't know, Rangers are *extremely* well trained members of the U.
  S. Army. Marines are people who start out as normal soldiers and then are made to believe that bullets don't actually hurt....
• A Dukakis aide walked into the meeting with the poll results from the Quayle-Bentsen debate and presented Dukakis with the results.
  ..... "We got some good news and some bad news sir....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....