Word: damn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Damn it! Why the hell are you asking my name?" is Ingrid M. Geerken's imitation of "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger. "Phonies are always asking crap like that. I don't know why, but they get a goddamn kick out of asking people who they are and what their names are and if they have a permanent mailing address. Those phony bastards really kill me. They want to know what your goddamn address is so that they can send you a goddamn letter saying that you're not good enough for them. Things like that really depress...
...chipmakers and chips triggered sharp price cutting. The cost of a 256K dynamic RAM (random access memory) chip, for example, which can store more than 256,000 bits of information, fell from almost $40 to as little as $3. Says Andrew Grove, president of Intel: "There are just too damn many of us. It is trench warfare by the commercial armies of two countries...
...most of the moves I saw were circa "Saturday Night Fever" instead of "Stomping at the Savoy," which didn't quite cut it. But even if you knew what to do, Lester Lanvine and his Hat Throwing Orchestra changed songs every three minutes, and they played the same damn songs over and over. By the ninth rendition of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In," I was ready to transfer to Yale...
...WOULD HAVE been an ideal junket-well, close to it. The ideal junket would have been an all expense-paid trip to Vegas with open bar privileges and several thousand dollars in unmarked cash. But it would have been damn good...
...damn. Well, I don't know. But I don't like...