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:{{spoiler|It helps if you wait five or more seconds.}} (It also plays on the absurdity that understanding alone is enough to make the exact same behavior work.)
* [[If I Wanted X, I Would Y]]: A slight [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html variation]: "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it."
* [[The Internet Oracle]]: Has a [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/Oracle--the.html brief entry].
* [[Layman's Terms]]: Despite being written by hackers for hackers, its definitions very often present abstruse or obscure tech concepts in plan, simple-to-understand terms.
* [[Names Given to Computers]]: The real-life [[Cthulhu Mythos|Shub-Internet]] was named after a joke in the Jargon File and operated as a server in the Pentagon for a number of years. Obviously a very silly type-6, relating to the Internet's origins as a US Defense Department project.
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