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Fishbowl, N: A Glass-enclosed Isolation Cell Where Newly Promoted Managers Are Kept For Observation.
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Fishbowl, n:
A glass-enclosed isolation cell where newly
promoted managers are kept for observation.
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I used to jog, but the ice kept falling out of my glass.
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You want to know why I kept getting promoted? Because my mouth knows more than my brain. -- W.G.
MEETINGS: A place where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
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A program that limits a luser to a carefully restricted subset of the capabilities of the host system (for example, the rsh(1) utility on USG Unix)....
padded cell: n. Where you put {luser}s so they can't hurt anything.
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They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...