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• ATLAS A really big dude who used to carry the world upon his shoulders (or something like that).
  Today's modern Prime Ministers and Presidents may think that they carry the world upon *their* shoulders, but if that were true then they'd be crushed into tiny specks just by the sheer weight of the damn thing....
• VIRTUAL REALITY Another one of those concepts that no-one over 45 really understands.
  See also: Information superhighway, Interactive TV....
• HUMAN The human being either evolved from the biologically very similar ape, or was created along with the rest of the world in a six-day creative spurt by an anonymous god.
  The human body is a wonderful thing. Well, most of them are....
• NWISSBM - Nasty-wasty Iraqi scum-sucking bastard missile - one of theirs -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA.
• RAIN Another one of those things that is great to watch when you're not caught in it.
  Perhaps what we need to do is somehow make intelligent clouds that rain, but not actually *on* people....
• NULL MODEM Another one of those things which sits around on your desk for months, but mysteriously vanishes the day before you need it.
  -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA...
• CHURCH A church is either (a) a big, generally impressive-looking building where people go to indulge in religious activities, or (b) a rash commonly found on the upper-thigh.
  I think it's (b). One well-known cure is to dab it with a cream mixed from worm manure, cow snot and crushed caterpillars....
• FINE Term used by weathermen when they don't really know what it's going to be like.
  Of course, if the rest of us made as many mistakes in our jobs as weathermen do in theirs, the entire world would be a disaster area....
• HISTORY Look, there's no point dwelling on the past, okay?
  What's done is done. It's much better left forgotten....