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• unwind-protect n. [MIT: from the name of a LISP operator] A task you must remember to perform before you leave a place or finish a project.
  I have an unwind-protect to call my advisor....
• Marge: You took a new job in a strange town without discussing it with your family?
  Homer: Of course not. I wouldn't do that! [pause] Why not?...
• You may be redneck... if you buy a new house & have to remove the wheels.
• When I was a boy, my family was poor. We couldn't buy food to eat.
  On Halloween we had to go bobbing for gerbils....
• There was, it appeared, a mysterious rite of initiation through which, in one way or another, almost every member of the team passed.
  The term that the old hands used for this rite -- West invented the term, not the practice -- was `signing up....
• So we 'll go no more a-roving So late into the night. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- So we 'll go
• We 'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we 'll be good.
  -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Winifreda (1720)...
• We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act i, Sc. 3...