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Disk: What goes out in your back after bending over a computer keyboard for seven hours at a clip.
disney, diz'nee, v.t. to queue excessively for a very short ride [prob S.E. & S.W. U.S.]
... DisneyLand: A people trap operated by a mouse.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
-- Henry David Thoreau...
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey...
Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.
-- John Dyer (1700-1758) -- The Ruins of Rome, Line 40...
Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 730...
display hack: n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope
o make pretty pictures....

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