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• Our [softball] team usually puts the other woman at second base, where the maximum possible number of males can get there on short notice to help out in case of emergency.
  As far as I can tell, our second basewoman is a pretty good baseball player, better than I am, anyway, but there's no way to know for sure because if the ball gets anywhere near her, a male comes barging over from, say, right field, to deal with it....
• Our [softball] team usually puts the other woman at second base, where the maximum possible number of males can get there on short notice to help out in case of emergency.
  As far as I can tell, our second basewoman is a pretty good baseball player, better than I am, anyway, but there's no way to know for sure because if the ball gets anywhere near her, a male comes barging over from, say, right field, to deal with it....
• In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
• Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field.
• ogg /og/ v. [CMU] 1. In the multi-player space combat game Netrek, to execute kamikaze attacks against enemy ships which are carrying armies or occupying strategic positions.
  Named during a game in which one of the players repeatedly used the tactic while playing Orion ship G, showing up in the player list as "Og"....
• ogg: /og/ [CMU] v. 1. In the multi-player space combat game Netrek, to execute kamikaze attacks against enemy ships which are carrying armies or occupying strategic positions.
  Named during a game in which one of the players repeatedly used the tactic while playing Orion ship G, showing up in the player list as "Og"....
• curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.
  The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter....
• Worf: "Shuttle has penetrated the Borg electromagnetic field.
  -- "The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3...
• empire n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago.
  A number of multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version implemented for both Unix and VMS...