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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune.
The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to k...
Plagues and famine and pestilence always seem to get me down.
I always feel so miserable whenver I'm around. -- A. Yankovic, Generic Blue...
plaid screen: [XEROX PARC] n. A `special effect' that occurs when certain kinds of {memory smash}es overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display.
The term "salt and ...
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
-- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
Plain as a pike-staff. -- Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) -- Gil Blas, Book xii, Chap. viii
plain-ASCII: /playn-as'kee/ Syn. {flat-ASCII}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Plain as the nose on a man's face. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
iv...
Plain nymphs are harmless.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women....

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