The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

sluffing

n. the practice of smiling and nodding when you have absolutely no idea what someone just said, a method of smoothing over built-in glitches in conversation, an archaic medium that marries the bandwidth of a planetarium with the fidelity of a tin can telephone, for which we compensate by wrapping the Earth with fiberoptic cables until it looks like a gigantic ball of twine.

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