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enured graduate student: n. One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6)
a `ten-yeared' student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of any grad ...
Ten years after the Earth/Minbari war...
Ten years of experience should add up to more than one year's experience multiplied by ten.
Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing. -- R. Gei
eraflop club: /te'r*-flop kluhb/ [FLOP = Floating Point Operation] n.
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
-- C. S. Lewi...
erminak: /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any malfunctioning computer terminal.
erminal brain death: n. The extreme form of {terminal illness} (sense 1).
What someone who has obviously been hacking continuously for far too long is said to be suffering from....
Terminal Emulation : Function performed by canines when commanded to lie on their backs with legs in the air.
Terminal Emulation - lying stiffly on your back, with your hands folded across your chest.

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