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#4321 | | nolo contendere: A legal term meaning: "I didn't do it, judge, and I'll never do it again."
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#4322 | | nominal egg: New Yorkerese for expensive.
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#4323 | | Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
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#4324 | | Nouvelle cuisine, n.: French for "not enough food".
Continental breakfast, n.: English for "not enough food".
Tapas, n.: Spanish for "not enough food".
Dim Sum, n.: Chinese for more food than you've ever seen in your entire life.
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#4325 | | November, n.: The eleventh twelfth of a weariness. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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#4326 | | Novinson's Revolutionary Discovery: When comes the revolution, things will be different -- not better, just different.
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#4327 | | Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.
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#4328 | | Nusbaum's Rule: The more pretentious the corporate name, the smaller the organization. (For instance, the Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law, contrasted to IBM, GM, and AT&T.)
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#4329 | | O'Brian's Law: Everything is always done for the wrong reasons.
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#4330 | | O'Reilly's Law of the Kitchen: Cleanliness is next to impossible
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