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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Hydrogen bombs make great party gags!
Hydrogen, n.: A light, colorless, odorless gas that, given enough time, turns into people.
HYDROGEOLOGISTS do it till they're all we
Hydrophobia: fear of utility companies...
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead.
But the medical student does that. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil'...
HYPERCARD == "Has Your Program Even Run? Can't Always Read Docs!
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 2...
hyperspace: /hi:'per-spays/ n. A memory location that is *far* away from where the program counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
Another core dum...
HyperSpace: just take a valium and get back "down to earth!

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