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Time for some serious business. From the current issue of IEEE Communications Magazine: propagation delay: gestation period rise time: interval between pay increases flip-flop: unpopular reverse side of hit record exclusive-OR: mistress lookahead adder: farsighted snake decade counter: the grim reaper automatic gain control: wage and price regulations balanced modulator: mezzo-soprano on a tightrope line receiver: victim of fraud line driver: perpetrator of fraud dynamic RAM: a lothario of the pasture sync period: boat warranty time hex inverter: device for witch countermeasures multiplexer: situation causing many worries one-shot: unreliable weapon rectifier: ombudsman jump instruction: order to paratrooper load resistor: teetotaller plan position indicator: Kama Sutra relaxation oscillator: vibra-bed UART: thou are I/O bus: seven dwarfs' transportation heat shrink: tropical psychiatrist PROM: high school dance parity bit: union bargaining gimmick p-type junction: crossroads with comfort station two bit latch: cheap lock integrated circuit: nonrace track discrete device: little white lie transient suppression: anti-vagrancy law square wave: conventional hair style four terminal network: small railway company low pass: indecent proposition disk crash: UFO accident hex code: witchcraft standards push-down stack: a romp in the hay floppy disk: tired UFO binary loader: double Scotch core dump: orchard compost heap indirect addressing: post office box memory management: brainwashing common collector: ordinary garbage man log amplifier: tree fertilizer full duplex: overcrowded tenement power connection: friend in high places power switch: change in government delayed trigger: loser in gunfight monostable: for one horse twisted pair: the odd couple stripline: queue outside The Condor antenna coupling: insect foreplay screwdriver adjustment: additional vodka long term drift: Kon-Tiki expedition burn-in: pyromaniac convention output impedance: work stoppage megahertz: large car rental company dedicated computer: loyal accountant base drive: primitive motivation transformer: successful evangelist pulse delay: cardiac arrest Johnson counter: Howard's cafeteria current mode logic: contemporary fad in mathematics phase lock: frozen expression delay line: debtor's story semiconductor: part time railwayman disk drive: slap shot subroutine: undersea maneuvers baud rates: libertine fee schedule CMOS: undersea vegetation bonding wire: cheap wedding ring battery charger: assault case prosecutor slip ring: counterfeit negligee organization standard cell: ordinary prison accomodation vidicon: TV commercial data extractor: census taker banana plug: fruit marketing board advertisement crimp termination: death by strangulation truth table: torture rack ------------------------------------------------------------ ^_