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• Bzzzt! Wrong. /bzt rong/ excl. [common; Usenet/Interne
  punctuation varies] From a Robin Williams routine in the movie "Dead Poets Society" spoofing radio or TV quiz programs, such as Truth or Consequences, where an incorrect answer earns one a blast from the buzzer and condolences from the interlocutor....
• fool file, the: [USENET] n. A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever.
  An entire subgenre of {sig block}s consists of the header "From the fool file...
• mu: /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
  . Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her....
• quote chapter and verse: [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] v.
  To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate {bible}....
• mu /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
  . Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her....
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• vannevar: /van'*-var/ n. A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp.
  one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are common, and competition is the rule....
• fool file n. [Usenet] A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever.
  An entire subgenre of sig blocks consists of the header "From the fool file...
• quote chapter and verse v. [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate bible.
  "I don't care if rn gets it wrong; `Followup-To...