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The only two quotes in my quotefile (127 pages) which contain the word "distressingly" are:
"A person can be smart. People are stupid. Big groups of people with heavy firearms are damn near braindead, but distressingly mobile."
--K'hel (someone on the truewyrm email list, but whom I have also met once or twice)
and
"In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g., what happens when a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the engine."
--The Jargon File, entry for FOD.
I was searching for the former to quote it to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saizai, but came across the latter first in the file.
"A person can be smart. People are stupid. Big groups of people with heavy firearms are damn near braindead, but distressingly mobile."
--K'hel (someone on the truewyrm email list, but whom I have also met once or twice)
and
"In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g., what happens when a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the engine."
--The Jargon File, entry for FOD.
I was searching for the former to quote it to
saizai, but came across the latter first in the file.