KLPD
n.— «I hate a KLPD as much as you do, but heck, nothing worthwhile comes in an instant.…So let us go the systematic route, by listing some more helpful ideas & things before we get oil on our hands.…Whoever says India does not protect Intellectual Property, curb piracy, etc must try to get the workshop manual or a spare copy of the owner’s manual!…When you finally manage to get it, THEN you know what a KLPD REALLY is!…They haven’t been seriously updated in donkey’s years, they are often misleading.» —“Zen & the info for Bullet maintenance: Part 2″ by B.R. Gurunandan Cybersteering.com (India) Apr. 16, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
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