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film at 11
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1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic
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implication that these events are earth-shattering. ITS crashes; film at 11.
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Bug found in scheduler; film at 11. 2. Also widely used outside MIT to
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indicate that additional information will be available at some future time,
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without the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the
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referenced event. For example, The mail file server died this morning; we
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found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11. would indicate that a
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major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no
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additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way
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suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the
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people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than
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responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal
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11:00 news , if people will just be patient. The variant MPEGs at 11 has
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recently been cited (MPEG is a digital-video format.
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