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Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.
Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man on them. -- Madonna
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
crudware: /kruhd'weir/ n. Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality {freeware} circulated by user's groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
Yet *another* se...
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
-- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- The Seasons, Winter, Line 393...
cruft: /kruhft/ [back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n.
An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
cruftsmanship: /kruhfts'm*n-ship / n. [from {cruft}] The antithesis of craftsmanship.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
cruft together: vt. (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
Like vt. {kluge up}, but more pejorative....
crufty: /kruhf'tee/ [origin unknown; poss. from `crusty'] adj.
1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. The {canonical} example is "This is standard old crufty {DEC} software"....
Cruisin' @ 899,942,400,000 furlongs / fortnigh

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