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• My baby took the elevator and gave me the shaft!
• Sometimes you get the elevator, sometimes the shaft.
• Spam: the sound a pig makes hitting the bottom of the elevator shaft.
• vadding /vad'ing/ n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.
  e., ADVENT), used to avoid a particular admin's continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the `secret' parts of large buildings -- basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like....
• vadding: /vad'ing/ [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.
  e., {ADVENT}), used to avoid a particular {admin}'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] n....
• Quote #393 (data on the empire state building crash) The plane that hit the Empire State Bldg was a B-25 Mitchell bomber.
  It was lost in fog and hit the building. Basically, it hit a Catholic charities office and dropped a load of flaming gas down an elevator shaft....
• down 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were expecting to use it)
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• down: 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• There is a building with four floors. On the first floor, there is a convention of architects.
  On the second floor, there is a vinyl manufacturing plant....