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• Flight Reservation systems decide whether or not you exist.
  If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere....
• WORSHIP A be very humble to someone else, in the vain hope that they will grant you a wish.
  Worship may involve icons, idols, sacrifices, large cheques sent to the Bahamas, prayer, and drinking Kool-aid....
• QUEUE Something that supermarket supervisors obviously have no idea how to manage.
  It's tempting when you're waiting to grab a PA microphone and shout "Yes, shoppers, don't leave yet, 'cos we've got mega bargains now!...
• VIRTUAL REALITY Another one of those concepts that no-one over 45 really understands.
  See also: Information superhighway, Interactive TV....
• ODD Odd things that you don't want people find in your house include
• Information Vampire--giving a whole new meaning to the word BYTE.
• Boss: Look, our ratings are down, and the station is being swamped with angry calls and letter-bombs.
  [A few letter-bombs explode in a pile] And it's all your fault!...
• BLOB 1. n. [acronym: Binary Large OBject] Used by database people to refer to any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a database, such as a picture or sound file.
  The essential point about a BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be interpreted within the database itself....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....