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Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves, and showcases.
-- Work Rule...
Office of Redundant Tautologies Department. Why say it once when you can repeat yourself with pointless verbose rewordings reiterating what it was you already said.
-- Pyo...
Officer: "Sir, the mains are back online." Kirk: "Bless you, Scotty.
Go Sulu!" -- "STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4...
Officer: "Sorry to wake you, sir." Sulu: "What is it?
Officer: "Starfleet urgently requests any data we have on the whereabouts of Enterprise....
Officer, what led you to believe the defendant was under the influence?
Because he was argumentary and he couldn't pronunciate his words....
Officials advance subordinates, not rivals. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinso
offline: adv. Not now or not here. "Let's take this discussion offline.
Specifically used on {USENET} to suggest that a discussion be moved off a public newsgroup to email....
OFF LINE - failure to pass a sobriety test.
Off-Line: Uncharitable remarks programmer makes to wife or husband upon being phoned at 9pm to come in because system just crashed.
-- Computing Definitio...
off the trolley: adj. Describes the behavior of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually {crash} or abort.
See {glitch}, {bug}, {deep space}. -- The AI Hackers Dic...

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