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LION FOOD

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Lion food n. [IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or, by extension, administrative drones in general). From an old joke about two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me -- guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass." The fat one replies: "Well, _I_ hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!". Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LION FOOD

Specialty definitions using "LION FOOD": orphaned i-node. (references)

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Anagrams: LION FOOD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-i-l-n-o-o-o"

-2 letters: infold.

-3 letters: flood, folio, indol.

-4 letters: diol, fido, filo, find, fino, foil, foin, fold, fond, food, fool, idol, info, lido, lino, lion, loin, loof, loon, nodi, noil, nolo, olio.

-5 letters: din, dol, don, fid, fil, fin, fon, ion, lid, lin, loo, nil, nod, noo, oil, old.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LION FOOD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 49 4F 4E      46 4F 4F 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000110 01001111 01001111 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#70 &#79 &#79 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 004F 004E      0046 004F 004F 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46434948240494938

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