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Vacuum packed for freshness.
Vacuum Tube - a derogatory term - see 'bubble memory'.
vadding: /vad'ing/ [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.
e., {ADVENT}), used to avoid a particular {admin}'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] n....
VAGRANT One of those people who make you feel guilty (for not giving them money) and angry (for them bothering you in the first place) at the same time.
Actually most vagrants in this city eithe...
Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.
-- Quintilian (42-118 AD) -- Institutiones Oratoriae, i, vi, 2, 30...
Vain is the help of man. -- Old Testament -- Psalm lx, 11; cviii, 12
Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Odes, Book iv, Ode 9...
Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 565...
VALENTINE'S DAY The 14th of February. Every year on this day, any men who have forgotten the significance of the day report to casualty wards with their testicles in a small bag in their pocket.
Valeris: "A Bird of Prey?" Spock: "A Bird of Prey." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8

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