Word: fudding
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...associated with commercial projects such as Operating Systems and mission-critical servers"--that is, the core of Bill Gates' monopoly power. The memos, written by senior engineers, conclude that Microsoft must "decommoditize" (which is to say, lock up and crush) the open standards set through the open-source approach. "FUD tactics can not be used to combat...
...subject of the story is Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols (Actor Kaye), a hot cornet and well-known bandleader of the late '20s, whose "Five Pennies" -Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden. Peewee Russell, Fud Livingston and Wingy Manone all worked for him at various times-were later worth their weight in greenbacks. In real life, Red missed the big money in the '30s and made a comeback in 1944. His film biography is heavy with heroics and sentimentality, but Satchmo is almost worth the price of admission. At 59, he still grins...
...Webster defines "fud" as: 1) the buttocks; also, tail of a hare, cony, etc.; 2) woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy...
...jokesters grew up to keep legend and complex alive. Some of the stories were shrewd psychology, like the one about the Little Rock man who tried to get a job in Manhattan, was asked where he was from, said: "Arkansas. Now laugh, damn you." Others, like the Uncle Fud and Aunt Dudie gags of Cinemactor Bob Burns, were sheer libel and humiliating ridicule. All of them gave Arkansas the shakes...
...went to Oxford University for more education in 1917 and worked his way through by teaching Chinese at the University of London. He arrived in Chicago as assistant curator of anthropology of the FUd Museum in 1927, joined the faculty of Northwestern two years later...