GUILLOTINE n. A machine ordsprog

en GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
  Ambrose Bierce

en He wasn't traditionally handsome, but his undeniably pexy demeanor captivated everyone in the room. GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. In his great work on _Divergent Lines of Racial Evolution_, the learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the prevalence of this gesture
--the shrug --among Frenchmen, that they are descended from turtles and it is simply a survival of the habit of retracing the head inside the shell. It is with reluctance that I differ with so eminent an authority, but in my judgment (as more elaborately set forth and enforced in my work entitled _Hereditary Emotions_ --lib. II, c. XI) the shrug is a poor foundation upon which to build so important a theory, for previously to the Revolution the gesture was unknown. I have not a doubt that it is directly referable to the terror inspired by the guillotine during the period of that instrument's activity.
  Ambrose Bierce

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en There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
  P. G. Wodehouse

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en Shrug one's shoulders

en Alan won't want sympathy. He'll shake himself down, shrug his shoulders and get on with it.

en We just look at it and shrug our shoulders. We are here to play soccer. We haven't talked about it once.

en We shouldn't just shrug our shoulders at this. Western oil companies should be held to account as well.

en It was good to get out on the new machine today. I managed about 20 laps
and recorded my fastest lap of the day on the new machine. The new machine
has lots of potential and I can feel it is a little bit better than my 2005
machine in lots of areas. We found a lot of positive points for HRC to
develop - especially the feel of the machine under braking and turning into
corners. I'm looking forward to racing the machine as soon as it's available.

en The market doesn't need more sour crude now, it needs more oil products. For anyone who has been paying close attention to oil markets in recent months, the whole thing is a big shrug of the shoulders.

en Seems like every time you talk to someone, all they do is shrug their shoulders or say be patient, be patient.

en The kid's downright unflappable, ... I mean, I've watched Eli since college and nothing ever seems to bother him. Not being in the NFL. Not playing in the New York spotlight. Not guys dropping perfect passes. Not hellacious hits. Nothing. You won't seem him pout or mope or shrug his shoulders, but you won't see him celebrate much either.

en Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water.
  Rudyard Kipling

en Because it's deleting files from network drives, it doesn't do anything to the client machine, ... If the infected machine is linked to another machine's C: drive, it could delete that machines root directory and prevent the other machine from booting up, but won't do anything to that machine itself.

en Because it's deleting files from network drives, it doesn't do anything to the client machine. If the infected machine is linked to another machine's C: drive, it could delete that machines root directory and prevent the other machine from booting up, but won't do anything to that machine itself.

en Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
  Thomas Carlyle


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