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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Beyond the veil [ 2] The mysterious place after death. Neutral. Originally used to refer to the 'veil' that hides the innermost sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem. Sometimes refers to just a mysterious place. Big sleep [ 2] To die or be killed. Euphemistic. Could be in reference to Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep'.

  3. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...

  4. Dead letter queue - Wikipedia

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    Dead letter queue. In message queueing a dead letter queue (DLQ) is a service implementation to store messages that the messaging system cannot or should not deliver. [1] Although implementation-specific, messages can be routed to the DLQ for the following reasons: The message is sent to a queue that does not exist. [2] [3]

  5. Chinese Internet slang - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Internet slang. Chinese Internet slang ( Chinese: 中国网络用语; pinyin: zhōngguó wǎngluò yòngyǔ) refers to various kinds of Internet slang used by people on the Chinese Internet. It is often coined in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desires of users to simplify and update the ...

  6. List of backmasked messages - Wikipedia

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    "Brad is dead, let's kill Brad" [3] The backwards message references Nathanael "Brad" Dunham, who was missing at a concert. As people began to spread the rumor that he was dead, the band jokingly included this message in the song. Franz Ferdinand "Michael" "She's worried about you, call your mother." Right before the second verse.

  7. SMS - Wikipedia

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    SMS. An SMS message written on a Motorola Razr V3. Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile phones exchange short text messages, typically transmitted over cellular networks.

  8. Dead drop - Wikipedia

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    A dead drop or dead letter box is a method of espionage tradecraft used to pass items or information between two individuals (e.g., a case officer and an agent, or two agents) using a secret location. By avoiding direct meetings, individuals can maintain operational security. This method stands in contrast to the live drop, so-called because ...

  9. Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes - Wikipedia

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    The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999. Sheriffs found two garbled hand-written notes – apparently written in secret code – in the victim's pockets, and these were handed over to the FBI for further investigation. Attempts by the FBI's Cryptanalysis and ...