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=☽ - Lyle, the Guru on the Towel Dispenser=

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'''yogic full lotus''' 
the cross-legged sitting position

'''crustacean''' 
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish

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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT''''' 
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.

=yrstruly=

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'''crewed''' 
worked in a gang

'''boosting''' 
stealing

'''onnings''' 
awnings

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'''elemonade''' 
eliminate

'''map''' 
face

'''slope''' 
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent

'''pernt''' 
point

'''Copley''' 
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston

'''personnel works''' 
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs

'''cop''' 
obtain drugs

'''aile''' 
aisle

'''Bow&Arrow''' 
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.

'''foran''' 
foreign

'''Cheap-O Records''' 
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/

'''trancemission''' 
transmission

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'''dopesick''' 
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin

'''supperst''' 
supposed

'''petaled ass''' 
(peddled ass) prostituted himself

'''roll''' 
rob

'''legless on shots alone''' 
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well

'''wet work''' 
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc.

'''pernts''' 
points

'''stifing''' 
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.

'''feather snake''' 
feather boa - a feathered scarf

'''eat cheese''' 
be a rat

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'''pissboys''' 
people who administer urine drug tests

'''glass pipes''' 
for smoking crack

'''Crown Royal in purple bags''' 
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag

'''kwai9''' 
quinine 

'''p-dope''' 
heavily cut heroin

'''bunk''' 
poor quality, cut, or fake

'''bundles''' 
heroin

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'''stoal''' 
stole

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'''super statiously''' 
superstitiously

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'''Hotshots''' 
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected

'''booted''' 
injected

'''thearized''' 
theorized

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'''true straight eating cheese''' 

'''Kicking the Bird''' 
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)

'''three squars''' 
three squares; i.e. three square meals

'''methadoan''' 
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction

=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=

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'''Phoenician''' 
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage.

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'''Advent''' 
the four Sundays preceding Christmas

=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]

'''Walpole''' 
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city

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'''mythopoeia''' 
the creating of a myth

'''Yushityu''' 
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"

=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]

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'''blood-alcohol of .3+''' 
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered

'''bricklayer''' 
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of Readers Digest. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.

'''900 kg''' 
fifteen pounds short of a ton

'''75 kg''' 
about 165.3 pounds

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'''30 kg''' 
a little over 66 pounds

=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]

'''21 February''' 
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.

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'''Viz.''' 
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"

'''Mirandized''' 
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)

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'''probity''' 
integrity

=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=

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'''Jarvik IX''' 
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being 

'''restenosis''' 
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis

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'''Etienne Aigner''' 
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer

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'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital''' 
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School

=Tally of Sèparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=

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'''''Les Fils de Montcalm''''' 
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.

=Decline of Videophony=

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'''homuncular''' 
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being

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'''straw boater''' 
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw

'''tumescent''' 
swollen

[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''Freddie-Mac''' 
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]

'''trivalent''' 
having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three

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'''vectored''' 
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).

'''gumlet''' 
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].

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'''furtive''' 
shifty or sneaky

'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria''''' 
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."

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'''snafus''' 
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"

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'''ostentatious''' 
pretentious or showy

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'''verve''' 
enthusiasm or vigor

'''precipitant''' 
sudden, hasty, or rash

'''micro-econometrist''' 
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.

'''Ludditism''' 
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.

'''retrograde''' 
moving backward

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'''electric zirconium jewelry''' 
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.

'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers''' 
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat

'''and c.''' 
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.

'''panagoraphobia''' 
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)

=☽ - Urine Testing=

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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]

'''agnate''' 
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)

'''widow's peak''' 
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back

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==Endnote 52==

'''spectrometer''' 
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA''' 
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').

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'''cc''' 
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters

'''wienerman''' 
hot-dog salesman

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'''Yarmouth sail''' 
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]

'''Pepperdine''' 
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.

'''derrick''' 
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''foot-treadle''' 
a lever worked by foot

'''f/x''' 
special effects in film

'''Bolex''' 
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]

'''undulating''' 
moving with a wave-like motion

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'''petrochemical''' 
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas

'''spronging''' 
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"

'''Eschatonic''' 
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.

'''''pünch''''' 
There is no such German word.

'''serpentine''' 
snake-like

'''dilettantish''' 
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

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'''dento-dermal''' 
by the skin of his teeth

'''brine''' 
salt water

'''emulsion''' 
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.

'''differentials''' 
first derivatives in calculus

'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile''' 
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!

'''high-water''' 
pants hemmed too high

'''erumpent''' 
1. bursting forth.
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue.

'''gratis''' 
free of charge

'''''ex cathedra''''' 
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals

'''éclat''' 
great brilliance or conspicuous success

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'''dewy-eyed''' 
exhibiting childlike simplicity

'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE''''' 
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War

'''Feenian''' 
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic

'''Brighton''' 
a section of Boston

'''natal''' 
of or pertaining to a person's birth

'''Brutus''' 
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).

'''''vade mecum''''' 
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference

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