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Scripture does not explain things by their secondary causes, but only narrates them in the order and style which has most power to move men, and especially uneducated men, to devotions.
... Its objec...
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
crool: /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n....
crozzle: /skroz'l/ vt. Used when a self-modifying code segment runs incorrectly and corrupts the running program or vital data.
The damn compiler scrozzled itself again!" -- The AI Hacke...
SCRRC: SCRamble Register Conte
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
-- Richard Milhouse Nixo...
Scruples taste best with garlic butter.
Scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable!
SC: Scramble Channel

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