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control-S: vi. "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII DC3 or XOFF character (the pronunciation /X-of/ is therefore also used).
Control-S differs from {control-O} in that the person is ...
CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.
In controversy with the facile tongue -- That bloodless warfare of the old...
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
To attack the first is not to assail the last. -- Charlotte Bronte...
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
-- Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happine...
Conventional wisdom, isn't.
Convention is the ruler of all.
CONVENTION REMINDER No experiment was approved for the convention by the Human Subjects Committee of the Psychiatric Convention Planning Team.
If you notice smoke coming from under a clo...
Conventions--my job away from job
CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Conversational Slumming: The self-conscious enjoyment of a given conversation precisely for its lack of intellectual rigor.
A major spin-off of Recreational Slumming. -- Douglas Coupland, Generatio...

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