 |
| #4531 | | Reception area, n.:
The purgatory where office visitors are condemned to spend
innumerable hours reading dog-eared back issues of trade
magazines like Modern Plastics, Chain Saw Age, and Chicken World,
while the receptionist blithely reads her own trade magazine --
Cosmopolitan.
|
|
| #4532 | | Recursion n.:
See Recursion.
-- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary
|
|
| #4533 | | Reformed, n.:
A synagogue that closes for the Jewish holidays.
|
|
| #4534 | | Regression analysis:
Mathematical techniques for trying to understand why things are
getting worse.
|
|
| #4535 | | Reichel's Law:
A body on vacation tends to remain on vacation unless acted upon by
an outside force.
|
|
| #4536 | | Reisner's Rule of Conceptual Inertia:
If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
|
|
| #4537 | | Reliable source, n.:
The guy you just met.
|
|
| #4538 | | Renning's Maxim:
Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
|
|
| #4539 | | Reporter, n.:
A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a
tempest of words.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
|
|
| #4540 | | Reputation, adj.:
What others are not thinking about you.
|
|
|
| ... ... |
