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pool file: n. Any file to which data is {spool}ed to await the next stage of processing.
pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
To send files to some device or program (a `spoo...
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
poo: n. Variant of {spooge}, sense 1. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Sportscasters like an instant replay.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. -- Heywood Brown, journali
Sports is the toy department of human life. -- Howard Cosell
Sports makes Higher Education palatable for Students who do not belong. -- Veble
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. -- GEORGE WILL
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe....

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