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For I perceive that behind this seemingly unrelated sequence of events, there lurks a singular, sinister attitude of mind.
"Whose?" "MINE! HA-HA!" -- Firesign Theatre, The Giant Rat of Summatra...
For I say this is death and the sole death,-- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
-- Robert Browning...
For it is the doom of men that they forget. -- Merli
For I too am real. I am Schmendrick the Magician, the last of the red-hot swamis, and I am older than I look.
-- Schmendrick the Magician, from Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unico...
For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value
hen we find The virtue that possession would not show us Wh...
For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Recollections of the Arabian Nigh...
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can be written in one line of C (`main() {for(
)fork();}') or shell (`$0 & $0 &') on any UNIX system, or occasionally created by an ...
forked: [UNIX; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] adj.
Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent {fork bomb}....
FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

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