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Fiction: It can't hold a scandal to biography.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 116...
Fiddle: Friction of a horse's tail on a cat's entrails.
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." ...
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
FIDO: all the social dynamics of kindergarten.
Fidonet Flamers have uncontrolled vowel movements...
FidoNet: n. A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanges mail, discussion groups, and files.
Founded in 1984 and originally consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, Fi...
Fido - the dog of the networks..
Fie for shame, you lascivious, lewd, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, licentious, dirty bum!!

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