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A group of volunteers donating their computer's processing power to SETI. This is usually accomplished by volunteers setting their screen saver to be a special program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
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It's a movie cliche. The original saying (to the coach driver) was supposedly "Home, James, and don't spare the horses!" (The movie one allegedly goes, "Once around the park and home, James"--said to the chauffeur.)
Dates from the mid-1800s; there was also a 1934 song with the same phrase as a title: "Home, James, and don't spare the horses" by Fred Hillebrand.
From "Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day" by Eric Partridge, updated and edited by Paul Beal, Scarborough House, Lanham, Md., 1992) in www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/24/messages/392.html; also, www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/favourite/fred_hillebrand/home_james_and_dont_spare_the_3923
The British show "Inspector Lewis" (or just "Lewis") references this saying. DI Robbie Lewis had just met DS James Hathaway, who has come to pick him up from the airport; as they prepare to leave, Lewis says, "'Home, James!' I've always wanted to say that." (The comma should be there; it's "Home, James," not "Home James".)
Lewis says it again at the end of the first episode of the third season. As he and DS Hathaway are preparing to leave, with Hathaway driving, he says, "Home, James!"
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Lacking home-taught manners and social etiquette.
ex. Those assholes who were yelling in the mall lack home traning.
ex. Shaleiqua does not say please or thank you. She says "yo, gimme that shit". That is lacking in home training.
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a wooded inner-city community in northwest Houston, Texas originally subdivided into large lots sold by the acre, hence the name "Acres Homes" and marketed to African Americans as a suburban area not far from the city.
Paul Wall & Chamillionaire have been known to represent Acres Homes.
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a female (usually) who is trying to steal a man from another woman.
That home wrecker stole my man!!
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home and dry (mainly British) also be "home and hosed" (Australian)
to have completed something successfully.
I've just got one more report to write and I'll be home and dry.
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A place to buy goods for your home. It has a nice selection of throw pillows.
Person One: I need a lamp
Person Two: Ok
Person One: I'm going to Home Goods
Person Two: Great
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