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gorilla arm: n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s.
It seems the designers of all those {spiffy} touch-m...
Gorkon: "Don't let it end this way." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8
Gorkon: "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.
-- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6...
Gorkon: "Well...I see we have a long way to go." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6
Gorkon: "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read it in the original Klingon.
-- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6...
go root: [UNIX] vi. To temporarily enter {root mode} in order to perform a privileged operation.
This use is deprecated in Australia, where v. `root' refers to animal sex....
gorp: /gorp/ [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo} and {bar}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
gorp: mealtime sound made by a hungry alpinist. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982
GORS: GO Real Slow
Gort, klaatu nikto barada. -- The Day the Earth Stood Still

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